Overview
I am a sociologist and demographer interested in how spatial contexts, social networks, and climate change contribute to the (re)production of social inequality.
Currently, I am working on two projects. The first project seeks to assess how structural neighborhood conditions are associated with patterns of spatial isolation. The second project focuses on understanding how social network characteristics shape how much people travel around their city on a given day, as well as the range and diversity of the spaces they visit.
My dissertation is going to focus on unraveling the social mechanisms that increase individuals' exposure to heat and their risk of experiencing heat-related morbidity and mortality during heat waves.
Some of my previous work has been published in Scientific Reports, Social Science and Medicine, Population Space and Place, and PLOS One.
Dissertation Committee:
Erin York-Cornwell, Vida Maralani, Peter Rich, John R.B. Palmer (Pompeu Fabra University, Spain).
Selected Publications:
Padilla-Pozo, Á., Bartumeus, F., Montalvo, T., Sanpera-Calbet, I., Valsecchi, A., & Palmer, JRB (2024). Assessing and Correcting Neighborhood Socioeconomic Spatial Sampling Biases in Citizen Science Mosquito Data Collection. Scientific Reports, 14, 22462. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-73416-6
Padilla-Pozo, Á., Torrado, J.M. & Palomares-Linares, I., & Duque-Calvache, R. Unique times, unequal mobilities: daily mobility during the de-escalation of the COVID-19 pandemic (2023). Population, Space and Place. E2662, 29 (5). https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2662
Benach, J., Padilla-Pozo, Á., Martínez, E., Molina, J.C., Gutiérrez, M., Pericàs, J.M., Gutiérrez-Zamora Navarro, M., & Zografos, C. (2022). What do we know about the impact of economic recessions on mortality inequalities? A critical review. Social Science & Medicine, 296. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.114733