Miguel González-Leonardo

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Miguel González-Leonardo holds a PhD in Demography (Summa Cum Laude and Extraordinary PhD Award) from the Centre for Demographic Studies and the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Government and Society of the United Arab Emirates University. Previously, he worked as a researcher at the Geographic Data Science Lab of the University of Liverpool (UK), the Centre for Demographic, Urban and Environmental Studies at El Colegio de México, and the Population and Just Societies Program at the International Institute for Applied System Analysis (Austria). He has undertaken research stays at the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (Chile) and the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (Germany).

His research focuses on human mobility, internal and international migration, and population change at national and subnational scales. His work has been published in leading journals such as Demography, International Migration Review, Population Studies, Population, Space and Place, Demographic Research, the Journal of Rural Studies, and Geographical Analysis. He has been the principal investigator in projects funded by the United Nations and El Colegio de México, and working team member in projects funded by the European Union, Research England, and the Spanish Government. Miguel has held editorial roles in reputable journals, including Population, Space and Place and the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A. He received the Young Researcher Award from the Spanish Regional Science Association, the Best Research Article Award from the Spanish Geographical Association, and the Top Cited Article Award from Population, Space and Place

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