I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at the National University of Distance Education (UNED), working on the project Multidimensional Masculinities and the Gender Divide: A Comparative and Intergenerational Analysis (MULTIDIMENSIONAL). I received my Ph.D. in Social Sciences from the University Carlos III of Madrid in 2024, following an M.A. from Pompeu Fabra University on Sociology and Demography.

My research examines social stratification across several intersecting dimensions — migration and spatial mobility, gender inequalities and masculinities, digital divides, and educational trajectories — combining life-course and cumulative (dis)advantage perspectives with advanced quantitative methods, including sequence analysis, RIF/inequality decomposition, and multilevel modeling, applied to comparative European survey and administrative data.

This work has been published in European Societies (x2), the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Population, Space and Place, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, and Comparative Population Studies. Current work is under revise-and-resubmit at Social Indicators Research and International Migration.

Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Bologna, where I worked on digital inequalities among older adults within the ICTAGE project and Spoke 5 of AGE.IT. I have also continued developing research on internal, international, and return migration, with particular attention to their implications for social mobility across generations.

Beyond research, I have taught undergraduate courses at the University Carlos III and served on Master’s thesis committees at Universidad Europea de Madrid. My academic journey has also taken me to Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona as a research assistant and the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB) as a Visiting Scholar.

If you work on similar topics or are interested in my research, feel free to get in touch via email at jose.lopezblanco[@]unibo.it or jd.lopez[@]poli.uned.es