CV Summary

I am an anthropologist and historian specialized on urban studies and ethnography, currently working as an assistant researcher (contracted by the FCT-CEEC Program) at the Center for Research and Studies of Sociology (Cies) of Iscte, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (Portugal). Moreover, since 2013 I am Invited Professor in the Urban Studies PhD program (Iscte-iul/FCSH-UNL) and since 2017, Invited Assistant Professor at Iscte-iul, where I teach ‘Fieldwork Methods’ and ‘Laboratory of Observational Research’. My career has centred on four different topics for the last decade: 1) International students and student migration: youth cultures, social class and lifestyle mobility; 2) Urban transformations: Nightlife gentrification, heritage, touristification and social movements; 3) Anthropology of infrastructures: daily mobility, urban planning and public space; 4) Ethnic and racial minorities: Identity and everyday resistances in urban context.

Academic Qualifications
University/Institution Type Degree Period
Universitat de Barcelona
PhD Doctorat en Antropologia 2011
Universitat de Barcelona
Other type of qualification Licenciatura en Història 2011
Universitat de Barcelona
Licenciate Llicenciatura en Antropologia Social i Cultural 2005
Research Interests
Urban Planning and Renewal
Migration and Transnationality
Public Space Ethnography
Youth Cultures
Heritage and Cultural Policies
Gentrification processes
Social Movements and Collective Action
Micro-sociology and human social interaction
Social control, exclusion and socio-spatial segregation
Sociology Social Sciences
History and Archeology Humanities
Anthropology Social Sciences
Anthropology Social Sciences