Professor Hired Doctor (accredited as Holder) in the Department of Applied Sociology of the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology of the UCM. He has two research six-years and two recognized teaching five-years, and is a member of the Institute of Sociology TRANSOC and the Research Group MOVICOM. He was previously Associate Professor in the Department of Social Sciences of the Carlos III University of Madrid (2011–2019) and has been Visiting Professor at the University of Coimbra (Portugal) in 2024.

He is a “Specialist in Applied Social Research and Data Analysis” by the Centre for Sociological Research (CIS) and is currently IP of the project. LIBCON-YOUTH funded by the State Research Agency (SRA) on Youth, University Associations and New Political Cultures: the liberal-conservative youth camp in Spain (PID2025-168658OA-I00, 2026-2029). Between 2027 and 2030, he will supervise the MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship of researcher Claudio Carbone, to develop the research project DOCSPACE, focusing on the study of autonomous urban spaces and the development of audiovisual ethnography in Mexico, Portugal and Spain, under European Union funding. He has previously participated in two other competitive projects funded by the EIP: ECOPOL (PID2019-104078GB-I00, 2020–2025), on social mobilizations in Spain, YOUTHACTIVISM (PID2020-117529RB-I00, 2020–2025), on youth and socio-political engagement. He also participated in five research projects on social movements and civic culture in Spain (2000–2005), in collaboration with Enrique Laraña and under the direction of Aaron Cicourel (University of California), funded by the CIS.

He has also developed several studies on risk perception and social reflexivity, digital networks and emotions, youth and emerging cultures. The results of these projects and studies have been presented in different forums, congresses, seminars and national and international courses, including at the Real Colegio Complutense (Harvard University, 2016), University of California, (Berkeley, 2017), University of Cambridge (Faculty of History, 2018) and École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS, Paris, 2024). He has published articles in national and international scientific journals and is co-author, together with Enrique Laraña, of the book Democracy, Dignity and Social Movements, published by the Centre for Sociological Research (CIS).

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