Emilio Zagheni is Assistant Professor of Sociology, City University of New York. With undergraduate degrees in statistics, economics and social sciences, Dr. Zagheni has masters degrees from the University of California, Berkeley in statistics and demography, where he also received his PhD. Prior to his academic appointment at CUNY, Dr. Zagheni was a research scientist at Germany's Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research. Dr. Zagheni's research focuses on mathematical and computational demography, intergenerational ties, population and environment, interaction of population dynamics and infectious diseases. He is P.I. on an NIH National Institute on Aging Research R03 Grant and is co-author of the forthcoming book, "A Comparative Analysis of European Time Transfers between Generations and Genders".