A bit more about me

I am a postdoctoral researcher at Copenhagen Business School since May 2025.

As part of the AGILE project, I research about the politics, policies and practices of the interaction between work, family and free time. We try to go beyond the current focus on the reconciliation between paid working time and unpaid caring time, and explore what enables people, and parents in particular, to gain access to leisure time. Our aim is to reconcile work-family research with more classic questions of working time and freedom. The project is led by Caroline de la Porte.

In my research, I develop a policy feedback argument to explain the partisan politics of welfare state change. When do political actors shift their policy positions? When do social rights survive? My main argument is that the legislative activity of political parties influence what other parties do when they reach power. 

I completed my PhD at the EUI in June 2025. In my dissertation, I applied this argument to explore how left-wing governments influenced conservative and Christian-democratic parties to become more progressive in the realm of gender and the family. I explored different feedback mechanisms such as bureaucratic continuity and feminist advocacy groups. You can access my full dissertation here, which is composed of the empirical papers you can find here. You may also find a recent interview about my PhD research here. This research was part of the WellSire ERC project, led by Professor Anton Hemerijck.

In other shared projects, I study the politics of welfare and political economy transformations more broadly. I am currently working on the role of political parties and trade unions in the divergent political economy trajectories of Italy and Spain, the politics of the Spanish welfare state, and Mediterranean party politics.

I also enjoy knowledge transfer and non-academic publishing. I write op-eds in Spanish that communicate the main ideas of my academic articles. Additionally, I am a member of Espai08, a critical economist opinion group named after the Great Recession, where we produce applied economic research from a progressive and transformative standpoint. You can find all my press publications in Spanish or Catalan here.

Before my PhD, I worked as a research technician at IGOP, where I collaborated with Professor Marga León on academic and applied research in the fields of labor and family policy. Previously, I completed a Master of Science in Political Science with a specialization in Political Economy at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). My master's thesis argues that part-time employment in Spain does not facilitate work-life balance due to atypical and irregular time schedules. Instead, it serves as a tool for employers to reduce labor costs in low-skilled and feminized sectors.

In addition, I earned a Master's degree in Teaching Secondary and High School Education from the Universitat de Barcelona (UB). My Bachelor's degree is in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF). 

I was born in Santiago de Compostela, Galicia.