She holds a BA in Anthropology from the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina (1990). In June 1991 she completed the DEA in Sociology, orientation Sociologie de la Culture et du Changement Social, at the Université Paris VII-Jussieu (Paris, France). Years later, she completed the DEA in Urban Anthropology at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona, Spain), and defended her PhD in 2012, obtaining the mention Excellent Cum laude, as well as the Extraordinary PhD Award. Her continuous involvement in various European and national projects allowed her to publish numerous articles in scientific journals of impact, book chapters, as well as participation in conferences and workshops. Editor of the scientific journal Arxiu d'Etnografia de Catalunya, she is also a member of the UNESCO Chair of Intercultural Dialogue in the Mediterranean, at the URV. Her topics of interest are: transnational families, binational couples, international adoptions, national stereotypes, gender violence, identities.

She has a distinguished career at the intersection of research and R&D&I management. She holds a PhD in Humanities from Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona and has experience in qualitative research and action research in Social Sciences and Humanities, addressing issues such as interculturality, dynamics of inclusion and participation, and social/techno-social innovation. In recent years she has focused her work on the observation and management of change in innovation processes, with a particular focus on the transformation of social and health (care) services for the elderly and vulnerable groups. In the field of R&D&i management, she has participated in all stages of European projects, from proposal writing to post-award management, within FP7, H2020 and Horizon Europe framework programs, collaborating with several Catalan universities, including URV, UOC and UVic. Between 2019 and 2021, she held the position of project manager for the project SoCaTel: A multi-stakeholder co-creation platform for better access to Long-Term Care services (Innovation Action, H2020), coordinated by the URV, where she was also in charge of the Work Package (WP) Change Management. In addition, she works as a consultant in European R&D&i programs accredited by ACCIÓ (Generalitat de Catalunya).

PhD in Social Work from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), a Master's degree in Research and Innovation in Social Education from the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), and a degree in Social Education from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC). He is currently a collaborating professor and a member of the evaluation panel for Bachelor's Degree Final Projects in Social Education at the UOC. He is also a trainer specialising in policing at the Col·legi d'Educadores i Educadors Socials de Catalunya (CEESC). He works as a neighbourhood police officer for the Mossos d'Esquadra, promoting mediation and social prevention initiatives from a socio-educational perspective. He is president of the CEESC's Camp de Tarragona Delegate Board and has participated in various Erasmus+ projects focusing on pedagogical innovation, network intervention, and developing professional skills in interdisciplinary contexts. He has published several articles and chapters in journals and collective works in which he analyses the synergies between social education, public security, and relational action. He pays particular attention to the role of police forces in inclusion processes and the improvement of community cohesion.

Marie Curie Fellow at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili de Tarragona, in collaboration with the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios de Género de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, where she is working on her project The Cost of Stigma: Tackling and Responding to Discrimination Against Students in the Sex Industry within Spanish and Italian Universities. She holds a PhD in Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology from the Universitat de Barcelona, and has extensive experience in postdoctoral research, as well as in university teaching at various Catalan institutions. She has been a principal investigator and member of the team in numerous national and international projects, including teaching innovation projects aimed at making visible and preventing discrimination in university classrooms. Her main lines of research are: gender and sexuality; social exclusion and sex-gender diversity; feminisms and social movements; public space and social control; public policies and youth. She is coordinator of the Grupo de Investigación en Antropología del Cuerpo y de la Sexualidad (GRACS-ICA), a member of the Latin-American Network of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies (Yale University-UNAM) and a member of the Research Group on Antropología del Cuerpo y de la Sexualidad (GENI-UB), where she currently coordinates the axis "Sex-gender diversity and LGTBIQ+ studies". She is the author of I tènia cor. Treball sexual, violències i resistències (Bellaterra).

PhD in Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology from the Universitat de Barcelona (2015); MA in Social Anthropology from CIESAS (2011); BA in Social Anthropology from the Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (UAP, 2007). During the 2016-2017 academic year, he completed a postdoctoral stay at the IIGG of the Universidad de Buenos Aires, to analyze the dynamics of sustainable urban mobility. He was a professor and researcher at the Institute of Social and Human Sciences at UAP and a collaborating lecturer at the Center for Studies on Rural Development (CESDER), both in Mexico. He is a regular participant in the research group on rural and indigenous youth at the ICSOH-CONICET-UNSa. For his research, he has received the Gonzalo Aguirre Beltrán Chair Award, granted by the Center for Research and Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology and the University of Veracruz; the Noemí Quezada Award of the International Colloquium on Otopames; an honorable mention in the Fray Bernardino de Sahagún Award granted by the National Institute of Anthropology and History; and the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Award from the National Institute of Women. His areas of interest include digital technologies, media, indigenous peoples, urban mobility, and socio-historical processes.