I am a researcher with a PhD in network science from the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University, where I work with David Lazer. My PhD thesis "From Followers to Close Ties: Homophily in Population-Level Social Networks" studied how individuals in society form social relationships, and particularly to what extent they cluster by shared attributes such as ethnic origin, religion, or social class. I am interested in Computational Social Science, Social Networks, and Harm Reduction approaches to substance use.
I am part of the COVID States Project, a multiuniversity project in the US that has collected and analyzed longitudinal data across the US on the links between social behaviors and virus transmission. In particular, I have studied the impact of the pandemic on social support and worked on validating the project’s methodology. In addition, two of my main projects involved studying homophily in Twitter follower networks and the spread of fentanyl misinformation (with the Health in Justice Action Lab). I have published in journals such as the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Nature´s Scientific Data, Nature Human Behavior, the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, and the Journal of Affective Disorders.
I am a visiting researcher at the COALESCE Lab, where I have been working on statistical and network science methods for the PATCHWORK project. I received a bachelor's degree in Mathematics from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), and a bachelor's degree in Sociology from the University of Barcelona (UB). Before starting a PhD, I worked for two years in the private sector as a data scientist.
