I am a political scientist from Vigo (Galicia, Spain), working like many of us Galicians in Madrid, at Carlos III University. Before my PhD at the European University Institute in Florence, I did an MA in Political Science at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and a BA in Law and Political Science at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Throughout all these years, I've been fortunate that my educational training and academic career also made me a brief citizen of Bologna, Río de Janeiro, London, New York, and Medellín.

In each of these places, I have encountered and engaged with different stages of women's movements and the global struggle for gender equality. In Río de Janeiro, I was first amazed by the power of a women's rally in response to sexual violence. In Spain, I participated in the transformation process of feminist grassroots mobilizations, from a niche movements in response to a restriction attempt on abortion rights to a massive national movement catalyzed by the public outrage over a rape case, within the time-span of a few years. In Florence, at the European University Institute, we organized the first feminist rally during Women's Day in response to the persistent inequalities within the institution. In Medellín, I co-organized the Study Group on Gender, Feminism, and Women, where our shared concerns regarding gender inequalities led us to collectively look for solutions to them. 

All these experiences have shaped my research interest in the changing dynamics of attitudes and behaviors and have led me to study them with a focus on (but not only!) gender and politics. My dissertation explores how bottom-up and top-down approaches, namely grassroots mobilizations in the former and elites in the latter, can shift beliefs towards women's issues and feminism. So far, I am exploring this topic using survey experiments, design-based causal inference methods with observational data, and text analysis.