My research has been featured in the international press, such as The Economist, The Atlantic, El País, Der Spiegel, Scientific American, The Times, Die Zeit, CNN and Haaretz. I am also invited to speak at high-profile events about the demographic questions behind current affairs, from the future of the family to the human cost of armed conflict.
Media coverage
Newspapers
- The Economist “The age of the grandparent has arrived.”
- El País “Families are ever smaller, thinner and more stretched out.” In Spanish.
- ABC “Diego Alburez-Gutierrez, demographer: there will be older people who have to care for their parents and their grandchild at the same time.” In Spanish.
- La Vanguardia “Farewell to the phenomenon of grandparents at the school gate.” In Spanish.
- Huffington Post “The average age of grandparents is changing — and it has startling implications.”
- Southern Weekly “Fewer and fewer relatives.” In Chinese.
- Der Standard “By 2095 people will have far fewer relatives. What are the consequences?” In German.
- Süddeutsche Zeitung “Can friendships replace the family?” In German.
- Tagesspiegel “Social environment: families will change dramatically in the coming years.” In German.
- The Times “Why cousins are a dying breed — it matters more than you might think.”
- Die Welt “Society: the classic family is in retreat.” In German.
- Neue Zürcher Zeitung “Families are shrinking — for China that is a problem.” In German.
- Die Zeit “War dead in the Gaza Strip: more than 100,000 dead in the Gaza war.” In German.
- Haaretz “From the individual to the family and beyond: what are the long-term social effects of bereavement?” In Hebrew.
- Stuttgarter Zeitung “Projection: more than 100,000 dead in the Gaza war.” In German.
- Der Freitag “Max Planck Institute counts 126,000 dead in Gaza: what does this mean for the question of genocide?” In German.
Magazines and digital media
- The Atlantic “The great cousin decline.”
- Scientific American “Shrinking family sizes may change our experience with aging.”
- Der Spiegel “People have fewer and fewer living relatives — a worldwide study of family sizes.” In German.
- Papel (El Mundo) “The death of the family… as we know it: losing that support network will have very negative consequences in the future.” In Spanish.
- National Geographic “How many living relatives we will have in the future.” In German.
- Fortune “Grandparents and even great-grandparents are projected to live longer by the end of the century. But don’t expect them to help with childcare.”
Television, radio, and podcasts
- CNN “Nearly 100,000 children in the US lost a parent to a drug overdose or gun violence in 2020, study finds.”
- Deutschlandfunk “Study: the number of relatives in families is declining.” In German.
- MDR Jump “Do people have fewer and fewer relatives?” on the podcast Fakt oder Fake. In German.
- CBC News “Cousins are disappearing. Is this reshaping the experience of childhood?”
- The World (PRX) “Study: global demographic change is fueling a decrease in family size and kinfolk.”
Public lectures and panels
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“The Long Shadow of Trauma after Conflict and Violence: Psychological, Demographic, and Political Perspectives”
Panel organised by the Einstein Center Population Diversity and the WZB Berlin Social Science Center. Berlin.
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“Demographic Dynamics in a World in Transformation: New Scenarios for Societies and Development”
Opening keynote of the UNFPA Cátedra permanente sobre desarrollo y resiliencia demográfica (2026–2027), launched with UCA, UES, UDB, UEES, UNIVO, Mónica Herrera, FLACSO and FUSADES. San Salvador. In Spanish.
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“Quantifying Bereavement: Kinship Memory after Mass Violence”
Workshop Unequal War: Demographic and Social-Historical Perspectives, Tampere University, Finland.
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“Who Counts? The Importance of Statistics for Social Science Research in Guatemala”
First Encounter of the Guatemalan Diaspora in Europe, Paris, France.
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“Changing Landscapes: The Importance of Understanding Kinship Dynamics for Social Policy in Latin America and the Caribbean”
XI Congress of the Latin American Population Association (ALAP), Bogotá, Colombia.
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“Data on Time – to Strengthen Social and Demographic Statistics”
Sprint of the Friends of the Chair Group on Social and Demographic Statistics, United Nations Statistics Division (online).