About me

Since November 2023, I have been Assistant Professor in Philosophy at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam.

I graduated in summer 2021 at the Department of Philosophy and the interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in Climate Change at the University of Graz (Austria). In Graz, a learnt a great deal about interdisciplinary research, which has shaped my work ever since.

After my PhD, I worked at PhilETAS (Philosophy of Engineering, Technology and Science), a research group based at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT); and at the UniFr_ESH Institute in Switzerland as a postdoc researcher. I have also held teaching, research and visiting positions at the University of Valencia (Spain), Keele University (UK) and the University of Washington (US). I am also a La Caixa Fellow!

On a more personal level:

I was born and raised in Madrid in 1990, in the popular working-class neighbourhood of Vallecas (or Vallekas, as we the locals write it). For those that do not know it, Vallekas has a strong identity as a symbol of resistance against oppresion towards the working class and against Franco’s right-wing dictatorship in Spain.

My academic education in English did not start until my mid 20s, when I realised that my years of learning English at school had been for pretty much nothing. For those unfamiliar with Spain: we don’t have the strongest reputation for English proficiency, and this is even more pronounced among lower socioeconomic groups. Eventually, my passion for philosophy made me overcome language barriers and ultimately pursue an international research path.

The experience of having a working-class background and being a woman has shaped my strong commitment against discrimination in philosophy, academia and beyond. I believe that, whereas the academic world has become a bit more sensitive towards gender discrimination, there’s still so much to do about classism.

Nowadays, I enjoy climbing, hiking and biking outdoors; or lifting weights playing board games indoors. I also like getting weird haircuts!

I speak Spanish (native), English (profiency level), German (advanced level) and ‘una mica’ of Catalan. Currently, I am also learning Dutch!