I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the COALESCE Lab. I earned my PhD in Sociology and Methodology of Social Research at the University of Milan in 2025, and I hold a BA and an MA in Sociology from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. My research examines how social inequalities are reproduced, reinforced, or contested through social relationships, with a focus on social stratification, distributive justice, and social networks.
In my doctoral dissertation, I studied how the socioeconomic composition of people’s social environments shapes their attitudes towards inequality, analyzing personal networks, schools, and neighborhoods through cross-country surveys, complex network methods, and a life course perspective. Another line of my work focuses on inequality belief systems--that is, how people understand inequality by using an attitude network approach. I examine how perceptions, beliefs, and judgments about inequality are connected, how sociodemographic factors and emotions shape them, and how they can affect relevant distributive attitudes such as support for redistribution.
My work has been published in journals including Network Science, Social Indicators Research, Frontiers in Sociology, and the Spanish Journal of Sociology>. Beyond research, I have taught undergraduate courses on sociological theory, inequality, economic sociology, and quantitative methods at institutions such as the Collegio Carlo Alberto, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Universidad Alberto Hurtado, and Universidad San Sebastián. I have also worked as a Socioeconomic Analyst at the National Statistics Institute of Chile.
