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SIMO NOGUERA, CARLES XAVIER PDI-Catedratic/a d'Universitat	Facultat de Ciències Socials Av. dels Tarongers 4b, Oficina 4D13 46021 València (9616) 25335 carles.simo@uv.es	Personal file	Biography
Carles X. Simó Noguera is full Professor of Sociology at the Universitat de València. He has a PhD in Demography from the University of Montreal (Quebec, Canada) and has worked as a researcher at the University of Durham (United Kingdom), the Center for Demographic Studies at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and the University of Bielefeld (Germany). He has been a visiting researcher and professor at the University of Córdoba (Argentina), the University of Bamberg (Germany), the University of Iceland, the Social Research Institute of Norway, the University of Massachusetts-Lowell and the National University of San Juan (Argentina). Since 2003, he has worked at the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology of the University of Valencia, where he joined the 'Ramón y Cajal program' to recruit doctors. His research has focused on population information systems, divorce, family demographics, life cycles and transitions, immigration and aging. His publications emphasize the incorporation of the gender perspective. Much of his research has been developed in the participation and in the management of R+D+I projects by means of competitive tendering. In addition, he has directed social transfer projects through agreements with the private sector, public administrations, and organizations of the third sector. He participates as external evaluator in several scientific journals and in Spanish and international organizations that finance research in the social sciences. During the period 2017-2023 he has been the director of the Doctoral Progam in Social Sciences at the Universitat de València. Formerly, he was member of the Research Commission in the same university and member of the Sociodemographic Committee of the Regional Ministry of Health in the Valencian Government (Generalitat Valenciana). He currently coordinates the Social·Lab - Social Sciences laboratory of the Universitat de València and leads the Group of Analysis and Demographic Research of the Valencian Population - DEMOVAL, ref. GIUV2019-466 at the same university. Recently, he has been co-leader of the research project Legal and Sociological Analysis of Gender Gaps in Work-Retirement-Work Transitions: Factors of Inequality and Regulatory Proposals, ref. RTI2018-095888-B-I00 of the 2018 Call for Projects of R+D+I 'Research Challenges' of the State Program oriented to the Challenges of the Society, and is leader in the University of Valencia of the project of the European Commission Housing for Immigrants and Community Integration in Europe and Beyond: Strategies, Policies, dwellings, and governance (MERGING) EC 101004535. He has directed 8 doctoral theses, has also directed 4 FPU doctoral students, and is currently directing 3 more. He has 120 publications. He has received 974 citations (302 in the last 5 years) and 128 in JCR journals. [Biography, english version]
SIGALAT SIGNES, ENRIC PDI-Titular d'UniversitatCoordinador/a Curs	(9616) 25606 enrique.sigalat@uv.es	Personal file	Biography
Enric Sigalat Signes holds a PhD in Sociology and is a sociologist and social worker from the University of Valencia, where he works as a teaching and research staff member (PDI). He carries out his research work at the University Institute for Local Development, as a member of the Territorial Development Research Group (GRIDET). His research career focuses on participating in and coordinating competitive projects and contracts at the local, regional, national and European levels, with a clear focus on knowledge transfer and the profile of an applied social scientist-practitioner. He has more than 150 publications to his name, including articles in high-impact indexed journals, book chapters, monographs and scientific contributions to conferences, in areas such as local development, social research methodology, mixed methods, inclusive smart cities and citizen participation. He has carried out research and teaching stays at national and international universities. He has experience in the management and direction of university chairs, as well as in coordination and academic management tasks, and has a proven track record in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, supervision of final degree projects, master's theses and doctoral theses, as well as a sustained career in teaching innovation.

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RUIZ SANCHO, AINARA PTGAS-Ets Investigacio-Sociologia	Facultat de Ciències Socials Av. dels Tarongers 4b 46021 València 96 162 59 56 Social·Lab 25956 ainara.ruiz@uv.es	Personal file	Biography
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ROMERO CRESPO, JUAN ANTONIO PIT-Tecnic/a Sup Pers Tecn Suport	Facultat de Ciències Socials Av. dels Tarongers 4b 46021 València Tel: 963 82 85 00 (Ext. 21732) dilluns a divendres: 09:30 a 13:30h. Social·Lab juan.a.romero@uv.es	Personal file	Biography
PhD from the Doctoral Programme in Social Sciences at the Universitat de València (2026), with the thesis «La vulnerabilidad social como fenómeno estructural y contextual. Diseño del instrumento IVEC para la Comunitat Valenciana» (Social vulnerability as a structural and contextual phenomenon: design of the IVEC instrument for the Valencian Community), supervised by Carles Xavier Simó Noguera and carried out under a University Teacher Training (FPU) predoctoral contract from the Spanish Ministry of Universities. Bachelor’s degree in Sociology from the Universitat de València and Master’s degree in Research Models and Areas in the Social Sciences from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). Currently a senior research support technician at the Social·Lab, the Social Sciences Laboratory of the Universitat de València, funded by a Technical Support Staff (PTA) grant from the Spanish State Research Agency (AEI). Research focuses on measuring social vulnerability and territorial inequality, building composite indicators and the spatial analysis of administrative microdata. Has participated in the projects MERGING (Horizon 2020) and RTI2018-095888-B-I00 on gender gaps and retirement, and co-authored «Brechas de género en las pensiones» (Gender gaps in pensions; Tirant lo Blanch, 2023). Research stay at Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3; teaching experience in Demographic Analysis and Computing Applied to Sociological Research.

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