CED - Center for Demographic Studies

Juan A. Módenes (PhD in Geography) is Lecturer at the Department of Geography (Universitat
Autònoma de Barcelona). He teaches courses on General Demography (Bachelor Degree in
Geography, Environment and Regional Planning), and on Housing Demography (Master’s
Degree Metropoli on Urban and Metropolitans Studies – Institut Metròpoli – UAB). His
research production has specialized on Urban and Regional Demography specifically on
residential mobility, population and housing systems, and residential demand forecasts. He has
supervised several PhD researches (Doctoral Program in Demography – CED-UAB) on different
topics: second homes, population mobility, population projections, aging and housing, internal
migration, housing structures and metropolitan areas. His research is nowadays focused on the
dynamics of the Spanish housing system in a European comparative perspective. He is
currently Vice-Dean of Quality and Strategic Planning at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of
the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona.