CED - Center for Demographic Studies

Pilar Zueras is a social demographer interested in the study of population ageing and the wellbeing and health of middle-aged and older adults. She holds a BA in Sociology and PhD in Demography (2014, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona). She has been visiting pre-doc and post-doc researcher at various institutions: Institut National d’Études Demographiques (INED) in Paris (France), Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock (Germany), Manchester Institute for Collaborative Research on Ageing (MICRA) at the University of Manchester (UK), and Population Research Centre at the University of Groningen (the Netherlands). She was a researcher at the Research Centre on Micro-Social Change (MiSoC) at the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the University of Essex (UK) in 2020-22. Since 2025 she is a Ramón y Cajal Fellow at the Centre for Demographic Studies (CED) in Barcelona, where she co-leads the research team on Elderly Care.