María Dolores Puga González

Research Group on Aging (GIE-CSIC)
Institute of Economics, Geography and Demography of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)

Dolores Puga has been part of the CSIC Research Group on Aging since 1996. Since then, she has promoted a line of research focused on living conditions and health in old age, particularly in relation to the family, intergenerational transfers, and long-term care. She has participated in more than 40 research projects and contracts on these topics.

She has led research initiatives funded through competitive calls continuously for the past two decades, including the international Mediterranean Network on Intergenerational Wellbeing Transfers. She has served on the management committee of the European network Gender and Health Impacts of Policies Extending Working Life in Western Countries, and on the Expert Committee of the European project Grandparenting in Europe. She is the author of more than 70 publications in this field and has received several awards, including the Pañella Casas Prize from the Spanish Society of Geriatrics and Gerontology (2016), the Rogeli Duocastella Social Research Prize (2004), the Second Prize of the Caja Madrid Social Research Awards (2003), and the Second Research Prize from the Economic and Social Council of the Community of Madrid (2003).

She has been a guest researcher at various prestigious institutions, including the College of Mexico (2008–2010), the Institute of Demography of the Russian National Academy of Sciences (2010), the Swedish Institute of Gerontology (2008), the Gino Germani Institute at the University of Buenos Aires (2008), the Central American Population Center (2008), and the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (1997).

She has served on scientific committees for national and international congresses and seminars, and on editorial boards of scientific journals such as Revista Internacional de Sociología, Estudios Geográficos, Revista Española de Geriatría y Gerontología, and Papeles de Población.

She has also contributed as an invited expert to the Spanish Senate Special Commission on Demographic Evolution (2017), to the Working Group on Depopulation and Aging of the Conference of European Regional Legislative Assemblies, and to the Parliamentary Commission for the Preparation of the Plan for Demographic Dynamization of Galicia (2011–2012).

Since 2010, she has served as a consultant on aging for the Latin American Demographic Center (CELADE) of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UN-ECLAC). From 2012 to 2017, she was manager of the National R&D&I Plan for Social Sciences under the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. Since 2023, she has been a member of the ANECA Teacher Evaluation Advisory Commission. She also serves on the Board of Directors of the Spanish Association of Geography and coordinates the committee of experts on aging at the General CSIC Foundation. She was the scientific curator of the highly popular science exhibition Let’s Live for 100 Years and is a member of the jury for the Princess of Asturias Award for Social Sciences in 2023 and 2024.