Deputy director of the Centre for Demographic Studies, director of the Group for the Study of Demography and Migration, president of the Historical Demography Association and associate professor in the Department of Geography at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He specialises in population studies, particularly in the areas of family, marriage and, more recently, international migration.

He has published articles in specialist journals and is the author of Descenso literario a los infiernos demográficos (2008), Catalunya al mirall de la immigració (2014), Demografia Zombie (2018), Demografia y posverdad (2018) and La coartada demográfica y el discurso de la involución en España (2023).

In the literary field, he won the Marian Vayreda Prize for El llegat del doctor Deulofeu (2004) and the Ciutat de Barcelona Prize for Essays, Social Sciences and Humanities (2015) for Catalunya al mirall de la immigració.