I am a doctoral student at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) since October 2023, funded by a University Professor Training Grant (FPU) from the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities of Spain. My thesis titled HANIN-ESP-ID focuses on the identities and senses of belonging of migrants from Korea in Spain, and is supervised by professor Miranda Lubbers and Dr. Jihye Kim, lecturer in Korean Studies at the Asia Institute, University of Melbourne.
Previously, in 2023, I worked as a lab manager at the COALESCE Lab, and as a research support technician on the ERC Advanced Grant project PATCHWORK ("A Network Science Approach to Social Cohesion in European Societies"), for which I conducted computer-assisted personal interviews (CAPI) with people from Barcelona and its outskirts.
I hold a bachelor’s degree in Sociology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) and a master’s degree in Anthropology and Ethnography from the University of Barcelona (UB). In 2023, I received the runner-up award of the 27th Young Sociologists Competition (from the Catalan Association of Sociology) for my bachelor's thesis, and the 2nd “Tribuna Atenea” Award (from the Catalan Federation of Ateneus) to conduct ethnographic research on ateneus. Earlier, I participated as a research assistant (contributing to fieldwork, contact and data collection) in the Religious Map of Catalonia at the Department of Sociology of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), and in the Volkswagen Foundation's research project INCLUSIVITY ("Inclusivity norms to counter polarization in European societies") at the same Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology.
My main research interests are identities, migrations, ethnicities, sociolinguistics and nationalisms, with a focus on Catalonia and Korea. Methodologically, I specialize in qualitative methods, but I'm currently applying a mixed-methods approach through social network analysis. My research has been published in the Revista d'Etnologia de Catalunya (REC), and Treballs de Sociolingüística Catalana (TSC).
