I am a senior researcher at the Centre for Sociological Research (CIS) and former director of the Office of the High Commissioner against Child Poverty in the Presidency of the Government of Spain.

I obtained my PhD in Sociology from the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. I also hold an MPhil degree with distinction in Sociology from the University of Cambridge, and a MSc degree in Social Research Methods, with a second concentration on Social Policy, from the Methodology Institute at the London School of Economics. I obtained my BA degree in Sociology at the University of Barcelona, and I have been an official student at the University of California Berkeley (US), the Manchester Metropolitan University (UK), the University of Essex (UK), and Pompeu Fabra University (ES).

After completing my PhD I worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Demographic Studies (CED) in Barcelona, Spain; and as a Research Associate at the International and European Forum on Migration Research (FIERI) in Turin, Italy. I have also worked as a research associate at the Migration Policy Centre in Florence, Italy; and as a junior researcher at the Institute of Childhood and the Urban World (CIIMU) in Barcelona, Spain.

Moreover, I have taught at undergraduate and master’s levels at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), University Carlos III Madrid (UC3M), the Spanish National University of Distance Education (UNED), and CEA Global Campus. My research has been published in high-impact journals such as Child Indicators Research, International Migration, Nutrients, and the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies; and by prestigious publishers like Routledge.

One of my passions is to develop and produce documentary films. I have produced ‘Kursaal, la força de la gent’ (2017) [Kursaal, the strength of the people] and produced and co-written ‘Beirut, la vie en rose’ (2019) officially selected at DocsBarcelona (Barcelona, Spain), Red Sea International Film Festival (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia), Mostra Mundo Árabe (Sao Paulo, Brasil), Middle East Now (Florence, Italy) and Maui Film Festival (Maui, Hawaii, US) among other festivals.