Postdoctoral researchers

 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. She is a member of the UNESCO Chair of Intercultural Dialogue in the Mediterranean (URV). Her topics of interest are: transnational families, binational couples, international adoptions, national stereotypes, gender violence, childhood, identities.

PhD in Anthropology from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), with the thesis El cuidado de las personas mayores en la migración inmóvil venezolana, carried out as a predoctoral fellow of the Martí Franqués programme (2022-2024). He has a degree in Anthropology from the Universidad Central de Venezuela (2016) and a Master's degree in Urban Anthropology, Migrations and Social Intervention from the URV (2020). She currently works as a research support technician in the project ALTERCARE: Housing initiatives for the elderly. Local and community-based alternatives to the challenge of deinstitutionalisation of care . From September 2026 she will begin her postdoctoral contract at DAFITS-URV, developing research on the transnational governance of the Venezuelan diaspora and its political commitment to the defence of human rights and the democratic transition, addressing care strategies and the sustainability of people's lives both inside and outside the territory. Her career integrates approaches to (im)mobilities, diaspora, times of crisis, care and transnational governance, contributing to redefining the understanding of collective practices and forms of political agency in contexts of crisis and forced mobility.

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 Anthropology from the Rovira i Virgili University, a Master's degree in Medical Anthropology and Global Health and a Degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia. He was awarded the Carmelo Lisón Anthropology Prize 2018 by the Lisón-Donald Foundation. Ramón Acín 2013 Research Grant in Visual Arts awarded by the Provincial Council of Huesca. Interested in the anthropology of food and care processes in the field of psychiatry, his doctoral thesis focuses on the sociocultural, nosographic and epidemiological problems surrounding Pica's disorder. He is currently a tutor in the Department of Anthropology, Philosophy and Social Work at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili and carries out research work within the project "AlimenTrAccion: La seguridad alimentaria en cuestión".

PhD in Social Work from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), with an Extraordinary Doctorate Award, a Master's degree in Research and Innovation in Education from the UNED and a degree in Social Education from the Open University of Catalonia (UOC). He is a postdoctoral researcher in the MESS project, that seeks to improve coordination between Social Services, educational centres and the Mossos d'Esquadra Corps, and participates in other educational and interdisciplinary research projects. He is also the director of doctoral theses in the Doctoral Programme in Social Work on the extranet, a collaborating lecturer and evaluator of Final Degree Projects in Social Education at the UOC, and president of the Camp de Tarragona Delegate Board of the Col·legi d'Educadores i Educadors Socials de Catalunya (CEESC). He carries out his professional activity as a citizen proximity police officer to the Mossos d'Esquadra corps, promoting mediation, social prevention and socio-educational intervention actions.

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).