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 Teaching Staff Training Grant (FPU) from the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities of Spain. My thesis project, 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 in the University of Melbourne).
Now enrolled in a Study Abroad Research Program at the University of Melbourne from September 2025 to January 2026, with cosupervisor Dr. Jihye Kim.
In 2023, at the COALESCE Lab, I worked as lab manager, and also as research assistant on the ERC Advanced Grant project PATCHWORK ("A Network Science Approach to Social Cohesion in European Societies"). Earlier, in the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), I had participated as research assistant in the Religious Map of Catalonia at the Department of Sociology, and in the Volkswagen Foundation's research project INCLUSIVITY ("Inclusivity norms to counter polarization in European societies") at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology.
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 (ACS), and in 2021, the extraordinary award of the bachelor's degree in Sociology (academic year 2019-2020) from the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology.
My main research interests are identities, migrations, sociolinguistics and nationalisms, with a current focus on Catalonia and Korea. Methodologically, I specialize in qualitative methods, but I am currently applying a mixed-methods approach through social network analysis. My research has been published in Revista d'Etnologia de Catalunya (REC), and Treballs de Sociolingüística Catalana (TSC).
