Postdoctoral researcher at the Center for the Study of Social Movements (COSMOS) of the Scuola Normale Superiore (Florence). She holds a PhD in Sociology and MRes in Social Sciences from Queen’s University Belfast (Northern Ireland), where she defended her doctoral thesis on riots as a tactic employed by the militant environment of the Provisional IRA in Northern Ireland during the armed conflict (1969-1998). In addition, she holds a Bachelor's Degree in Sociology and a Master's Degree in Applied Sociology: Social problems, both by the Complutense University of Madrid.  She is currently developing her postdoctoral research on the mobilizations of hospitality workers in the United Kingdom and Spain. She is also secretary of the Research Committee on Social Movements, Collective Action and Social Change of the Spanish Federation of Sociology.  

Her main research interests include social movements, political violence, strategies and tactics employed by collective actors, and qualitative methodologies.