I am a doctoral student at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), Catalonia, with a University Teaching Staff Training (FPU) Grant from the Spanish Ministry of Universities (MUNI).
I now conduct mixed-method social network analysis (MMSNA) to understand identity-making among populations of migrant origin in plurinational contexts through the HANIN-ESP-ID research project (Identities and senses of belonging of the Korean population in Spain). My thesis is supervised by Professor Miranda Lubbers and Dr. Jihye Kim (lecturer in Korean Studies), with whom I enrolled in a Study Abroad Research Program at the University of Melbourne from September 2025 to January 2026.
I hold a bachelor’s degree in Sociology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), awarded with the special award by the Academic Affairs Committee for the academic year 2019/20, and a master’s degree in Anthropology and Ethnography from the University of Barcelona (UB), Catalonia. In 2023, I received the runner-up award of the 27th Young Sociologists Competition from the Catalan Association of Sociology (ACS).
My main research interests are identities, migrations, sociolinguistics and nationalisms, with a current focus on Catalonia and Korea and specialization in qualitative methods. I ams also a member of the research network Popular Culture and Conflict (CPC) in the Catalan Institute of Anthropology (ICA), as well as co-coordinator of the working group on Migrations (GT11) in the Catalan Sociological Association (ACS). My research has been published in Revista d'Etnologia de Catalunya (REC), and Treballs de Sociolingüística Catalana (TSC).
