Albert Esteve is Research Scientist and Director of the Centre d’Estudis Demogràfics in Barcelona. He earned his PhD in demography in 2003 at the University Autonoma of Barcelona (Spain) and he has done post-doctoral work at the Minnesota Population Center and the Institut National d’ Études Démographiques (France).

Esteve does work on union formation, family and household demography as well on immigration, spatial demography, and census micro-data, often taking a large cross-national perspective. His work has appeared in Population Development Review, Demography, Demographic Research, Historical Methods, the International Migration Review, and other outlets. He is the principal investigator of the WorldFam project, funded by the European Research Council.