I am an independent resarcher, writer and consultant of Spanish and Swedish origins and a mother of a boy and a girl. We live in Paris with a virtual foot in Madrid and occasionally London, and have also resided in New Delhi (India). For family reasons, we have strong connections with Mexico as well. My academic expertise centres on four themes: political aesthetics, city images, wartime destruction and post-war reconstruction and uncomfortable legacies (legacies of war and dictatorship). I have conducted research for academic and non-academic institutions in Madrid, Barcelona, London, Boston and Paris on different topics, ranging comparative research on education, urban regeneration practices, and the post-war building industry. My international, interdisciplinary background in the social sciences and the humanities includes a PhD in Sociology/Cities Programme from the London School of Economics (2009), an MA in Humanities and Social Thought from the New York University (2004) and a BA (5-year degree) in Political Science from Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2001). I also undertook courses in political science and art history at Uppsala University (1995-96) and Lund University (2002), and social research methods at the LSE (2005-06).

As a writer, I contribute analysis and opinion articles to the press and essays for other non-academic media on current social, political and cultural topics. My articles have appeared, among others, in Spanish El País, El Huffington Post and El Correo; Argentinian Clarín, and Swedish Dagens Nyheter. I also publish my own blog, and give occasional talks and conferences.

As an independent researcher I seek developing cultural, social and historical approaches to the city and the built environment. I possess a solid research and publications profile in the fields of urban, social and visual history and heritage (see Publications), including policy reports on heritage. I am particularly interested in the aesthetic dimension of politics, and am keen to develop projects that combine research on social and cultural issues with art. I have been involved in several artistic projects and installations, having conceived and coordinated the project Femmes et WC. I have recently finished writing a book on the aesthetics of power and resistance, which will come out in the Spring of 2026.

Prior to my free-lance career, I taught in the Department of Sociology at the LSE, and later collaborated with the Department of Architectural Composition in the Higher Technical School of Architecture of Madrid (ETSAM). I subsequently worked for the project ‘Constructing Post-War Britain: building workers’ stories, 1950-1970’ as a research fellow in the Centre for the Study of the Production of the Built Environment (ProBE) at the University of Westminster. From February 2013 and until August 2014, I was a full-time mother. Since September 2014, I work part-time as a mother and part-time as a researcher, writer and consultant.

I undertake comissions for essays, book chapters, reports, analyses and other forms of collaboration as an academic expert or consultant. Please do not hesitate to contact me for this purpose.