I am a behavioural social scientist originally from Murcia, 'Europe's orchard' in the southeast of Spain, and currently based in Turin, Italy.
I work as a postdoctoral researcher at the CSBC - CCA Behavioural Development Unit, at Collegio Carlo Alberto in Turin. I am also an External Fellow at the Discrimination & Inequality Lab (D-Lab) of the research group on Behavioural Social Sciences (BeSS) at IPP-CSIC.
During my PhD studies, I worked at the Institute of Public Goods and Policies of the Spanish National Research Council (IPP-CSIC), supported by an FPU fellowship from the Spanish Ministry of Universities. I received my PhD in Economics at the Spanish National Distance Education University (DEcIDE Program) in 2024.
Before, I studied for a Bachelor’s degree in Economics at the University of Murcia and moved to Madrid in 2018 to study an MSc in Economics from the University Carlos III. Just as I was ready to leave the academic world for good, a CSIC JAE Intro fellowship introduced me to behavioural and experimental economics.
Since then, I have dedicated my work to understanding human behaviour through a social and multidisciplinary lens. My research has explored affective polarisation and preferences for redistribution using survey data. Currently, I am working on an experimental project to validate a measure of social norms and implement it in a large-scale survey in India to assess gender-related norms. I am also investigating how social norms influence group behaviours across diverse social identities. The first findings from this project are already available (see research section).
My research interests also encompass experimental and quantitative methodologies broadly, with an emphasis on causal inference and its applications to policy evaluation. Before pursuing an academic career, I worked as a junior consultant in public policy evaluation.
For more information, see my CV.