Sergio Porcel

With a PhD in Sociology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), he has been a researcher at the Institut Metròpoli at the UAB since 2005, and he currently heads the Department of Social and Urban Social Cohesion. His field of research covers urban sociology, social stratification, inequality and poverty and social research methods. He has published numerous studies on living conditions of the population in the metropolis of Barcelona and the dynamics of socio-residential structuring in large cities. He is author of the book Desigualdad social y segregación residencial, una relación compleja (Social Inequality and Residential Segregation, a Complex Relationship, Madrid, Fundación FOESSA, 2020).