BIO
Javier Polavieja (Oxford University PhD in Sociology, 2001) is Banco Santander Professor of Sociology and Director of the D-Lab at the Department of Social Sciences, University Carlos III of Madrid, as well as Research Fellow at the Institute of Economics and the Carlos III-Juan March Institute. His main fields of research are social stratification, political sociology and migration research. His work has been published in leading international journals including, amongst others, the American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, European Sociological Review, Social Forces, Socio-Economic Review, International Migration Review, Labour Economics, Political Behavior, Electoral Studies, Social Indicators Research, and International Migration, as well as in the leading Spanish academic journals in the social sciences.
Professor Polavieja has also made several contributions in edited volumes published, amongst others, by Ashgate, Edward Elgar, Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press, and he is the author of Estables y Precarios: Desregulación Laboral y Estratificación Social en España (Madrid: Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas, 2003). Polavieja has held academic positions at Nuffield College, Oxford, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, the Juan March Institute, the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA), the Institute for Economic Analysis (IAE-CSIC), and IMDEA Social Sciences Institute. He has also held honorary affiliations to the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER, University of Essex), the Institute of Education (IoE, University of London), and the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (GSE). Professor Polavieja is currently a member of the editorial boards of European Sociological Review and Social Forces, as well as a member of the Scientific Committee of the Carlos III-Juan March Institute of Social Sciences (IC3JM). His work has received several international awards, including the European Academy of Sociology Best Paper Award (2014), the Robert K. Merton Award in Analytical Sociology (2014) and the European Sociological Review Best Paper Award (2019). Since 2015, Polavieja is Fellow of the European Academy of Sociology.