Biography

I am a Juan de la Cierva Research Fellow at Department of Political Science in the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Previously, I was part of the COVIDEU Project at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF). My main research interests are political behavior and quantitative research methods. Specifically, I focus on affective polarization and voters’ attitudes towards institutions.

I completed my dissertation, Patterns of individual and elite affective polarisation in Latin America, in 2024 at Universitat de Barcelona. My dissertation focused on the factors driving affective polarization in Latin America, specifically examining elite behavior, the role of leaders in shaping political identities, and how democratic backsliding can drive affective polarization.

Interests
  • Political behaviour
  • Polarization
  • Quantitative methods
Education
  • PhD in Political Science, 2024

    University of Barcelona

  • Ms in Political Analisis and Institutional assesment, 2018

    University of Barcelona

  • BSc in Political and administrative science, 2017

    Universidad Central de Venezuela

Skills

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Statistics
Political science

Peer-Reviewed Publications

(2025). Construcción de la Política de Defensa en España: El impacto de la opinión pública y las elites en la formación de la agenda. In: Duran, M. and Martinez, R. (eds) Repensando el papel de las fuerzas armadas españolas ante los nuevos desafíos a la seguridad. Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales. ISBN: 978-84-259-2078-3..

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(2024). ¿Unidos en la diversidad? Un modelo para medir la cultura política de defensa en Europa. Revista CIDOB d’Afers Internacionals, (137), 89-114.

PDF DOI

(2024). Political culture and defence policy: a model of five-subtypes to explain the Spanish defence political culture. European Politics and Society.

DOI

(2023). Defense culture in Spain: a new theoretical-conceptual proposal. Revista de Pensamiento Estratégico y Seguridad CISDE, 8(1), 71-91..

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Academic experience

 
 
 
 
 
Juan de la Cierva fellow
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
January 2026 – Present Barcelona
 
 
 
 
 
Postdoctoral researcher
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
February 2025 – December 2025 Barcelona
 
 
 
 
 
Universitat de Barcelona
Postdoctoral researcher
Universitat de Barcelona
April 2024 – January 2025 Barcelona
 
 
 
 
 
Universitat de Barcelona
Ph.D. researcher
Universitat de Barcelona
September 2021 – April 2024 Barcelona

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