Albert Esteve, demographer and researcher, is director of the Center for Demographic Studies (CED). He has done research stays at the University of Minnesota, at the Institute National d'Études Démographiques in Paris and at Princeton University. He has obtained funding for research from the Government's National R&D Plan, from the Generalitat of Catalonia, and from the different framework programs of the European Union. In 2009 he obtained the WorldFam project, a Starting Grant financed by the European Research Council. He investigates aspects related to demographics, marriage formation, marriage markets, and the structure of households, both nationally and internationally. His works can be read in journals such as Annual Review of Sociology, World Development, Population Development Review or Demography, among others. He has been the editor of the European Journal of Population and he is currently the director of the European Doctoral School in Demography in Barcelona.