Aïda Solé Auró is an associate lecturer and a researcher with the Department of Political and Social Sciences at Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), Barcelona. Since 2014, she has been a member of the Sociodemography Research Group (DemoSoc) of the same Department, which she has coordinated for eight years. After defending her doctoral thesis at the University of Barcelona (2009), she did a postdoctoral degree at the University of Southern California (Los Angeles) until 2012, when she left for Paris, where she did a second post-doctorate at the National Institute of Demographic Studies (Ined) (2013-2014).
Her scientific career has mainly focused on investigating population health inequalities in different groups as they age, and its relationship to demographic dynamics and individual well-being. Currently, her lines of research consist of analyzing the healthy life trajectories of individuals from different socio-demographic groups to measure the evolution of true comorbidity patterns; examining the healthy immigrant paradox by levels of education, and studying the evolution of gender inequalities in health when aging.
In addition, she has been a member of several competitive projects, and now she coordinates the LONGHEALTH project, which aims to understand how social, economic, demographic or cultural context influences the true evolution of true comorbidity patterns of a population.
Some of her research has been published in prestigious journals in the field of demography, population, public health, and ageing. Since joining UPF, she has served in various institutional positions, first as vice-dean of the Department (2015-2017), then as Department deputy director (2017-2024), and now as vice-rector for Students and Alumni (2024-).