Doctoral student at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), Catalonia, with a Training of University Teaching Staff (FPU) Grant from the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (MICIU). Previously, research assistant for the ERC Advanced Grant project PATCHWORK ("A Network Science Approach to Social Cohesion in European Societies") and the Volkswagen Foundation project INCLUSIVITY ("Inclusivity norms to counter polarization in European societies") at the COALESCE Lab.
Now I 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 (UniMelb), Victoria (Australia), from September 2025 to January 2026.
Graduate in Sociology of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) with special award by the Academic Affairs Committee for the academic year 2019/20, and I hold a master’s degree in Anthropology and Ethnography from the University of Barcelona (UB), Catalonia. In 2023, I received the honorable mention of the 27th Young Sociologists Competition from the Catalan Association of Sociology (ACS).
My main research interests lie at the intersection of migrations, national and ethnic identities, nationhood, and language uses (with a current focus on Catalonia and Korea), and I specialize in qualitative methods. I am also co-coordinator of the working group on Migrations (GT11) in the Catalan Sociological Association (ACS), as well as member of the research network Popular Culture and Conflict (CPC) in the Catalan Institute of Anthropology (ICA), and the Global Korea Research Hub (GKRH) at the University of Melbourne (UniMelb).
