Jordi Planas  is a full time professor at the Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB), which he joined in 1978, teaching on: “Sociology of Education”; “Economics of Education”; “Politics and Educational Systems” and “Education and Labour Market”.
He’s also the Director of the GRET (Research Group on Education and Work), which is an Institutional research group of the UAB with 20 years of research trajectory. The main research topics of the GRET are: a) Initial education and training, continuous training and skills, b) Youth, training and employment, c) Educational, training and employment policies and their impact on the labor market, d) Technological and organizational innovation at the enterprises level, e) Methods and processes of skills and qualifications acquisition at the enterprise level.
He’s the Coordinator of the PhD Program at UAB’s Department of Sociology.
Much of her research work in recent years has focused on the analysis of “The Effects of the Educational Expansion in the Labour Market” in the European and Nord-American Countries. He is or had been the responsible for research networks on this subject as EDEX-EU, EDEX-México and ESFOREM involving more than 10 research groups from EU and Nord-american countries.
He had been “visiting professor” at the universities of Toulouse, Rome and Guadalajara (México). He has a wide and long experience in managing and promoting research at European level with European founds (European Expert at the CEDEFOP, Secretary of the European Science Foundation Network on Transition in Youth -1993-97, Scientific Coordinator to the international “EDEX – Education Expansion and Labor  Market” group -TSER  Program, and other national and international groups).
He was a long and wide experience in dissemination of the research results, (f.i. creating, during her CDEFOP’s stage, the program “Agora Thessalonikis”).
He had been member of the Editorial board of the “Vocational Training European Journal”, “Youth Studies” and “Formation-Emploi”.
He has been working also in Assessment and counselling for public policies on education and work at the local, national and international level.