José Manuel joined LSHTM in 2022 as Brass Blacker Associate Professor of Demography. He leads the Mortality and Inequalities Research group within PSG. Before joining LSHTM he held the Newton International and Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowships at University of Oxford and was Assistant Professor at University of Southern Denmark. José Manuel received his MA in Demography at El Colegio de México, training at the European Doctoral School of Demography at Sapienza University of Rome, and PhD in Demography at the University of Southern Denmark and Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in 2020.