Ana M. Guillén is full professor of Sociology and Head of Department at the University of Oviedo (Spain), where she teaches Sociology (in English) and Comparative Social Policy at the undergraduate level, and Social Protection Systems at the post graduate one. She has published extensively on comparative social policy, welfare state development and health care policies (in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Greek, Turkish, Portuguese and Korean). Her articles have been published in high impact professional journals such as Social Science & Medicine, Social Politics, Journal of European Social Policy, European Societies, International Journal of Health Services, West European Politics, and Social Policy and Administration. She has co-edited a special issue of the Journal of European Social Policy, titled EU Enlargement, Europeanization and Social Policy (vol. 14, no. 3, 2004). She has also co-edited several books, among them Quality of Work in the European Union. Concept, data and debates from a transnational perspective (Brussels: PIE Peter Lang, 2009); Work-Life Balance in Europe. The Role of Job Quality (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011); and The Spanish Welfare State in European Context (London: Ashgate, 2011).

Research projects she has been involved in the recent past include: “Transformations of the Welfare State”,financed by the University of Oxford and the British Academy (2006-2007);“Working poor: jobs, households and policies”, financed by the Spanish National Research Plan (2005-2008); “The Politics of Welfare Reforms of Bismarckian Welfare Systems”, financed by the French Ministry of Social Affairs and Cevipof, Sciences-Po, Paris (2005-2007), and “The social impact of the economic crisis in Spain: a comparative overview”, financed by Fundación La Caixa, Barcelona. She was part of the coordination group of the Network of Excellence of the European Commission RECWOWE (Reconciling Work and Welfare in the EU, 2006-2011), and co-coordinator of Strand 3 (Tensions between quality and quantity of jobs). The NoE included 29 partner institutions and 260 researchers (22 from the University of Oviedo). She is currently leading a research project on “Welfare capitalism in South Europe: a comparative perspective, CABISE”, financed by the Spanish National Research Plan and she has been appointed a member of the scientific advisory committee of the EU funded collaborative project “Making Persons with Disabilities Full Citizens, DISCIT”.

In 1998 she participated as a researcher in the European Forum on the Reform of Welfare States at the European University Institute (Florence). She has written a large number of reports for the European Commission and the ILO. She has also participated as an expert in several Presidencies of the European Union and in the asisp Project (Analytical support on the socio-economic impact assessment of social protection reforms in the EU Member States, EFTA/EEA, Candidate and Pre-Candidate Countries (2008-2010).

She is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of European Social Policy (since September 2001), International Social Security Review (since January 2005), Revista Internacional de Sociología (since July 2010), and the European Journal of Social Security (since September 2013). She is also vice-president of the Executive Board of Research Committee 19 of the International Sociological Association (Poverty, social welfare and social policy), co-director of the Executive Committee of Espanet-Spain / Red Española de Política Social, and member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the OSE, Observatoire Social Européen. She was a member of the Executive Board of ESPAnet (The Network for European Social Policy Analysis) from 2003 to 2012.