PhD Students
Alonso Hervada, María
- e-mail: 100432090@alumnos.uc3m.es
- Currriculum Vitae
- Research interests: My research interest lies in the fields of gender and discrimination, particularly in how different forms of sexism operate in the current global context. My work seeks to examine the factors that contribute to the endorsement of such sexist attitudes, taking into account both individual and contextual influences as well as exploring their impact on gender equality and gender policies.
Labat Frugoni, Juan
- e-mail: juanlabatfrugoni@gmail.com
- Curriculum Vitae
- Research interests: My main motivation is to investigate the relationship between economic growth/social prosperity, environmental impact and sustainability, from a long run perspective.My research focuses on understanding how different societies have related with the environment and trying to determine if this relation is sustainable or not. , To achieve this goalI understand that a historic perspective is necessary and demands research in at least two areas: 1) Understanding and measuring environmental impacts from societies in certain periods of time; 2) Understanding and measuring if those societies were in a sustainable path in the period of time under consideration.
Alva Mendoza, Almen Jair
- e-mail: alalvam@clio.uc3m.es
- Curriculum Vitae
- Research interests: I am interested in political behaviour, political parties, public opinion, and multi-level politics. Currently, I am working on FEDCRISIS, a research project that aims to study to what extent an economic crisis, an external shock or a scenario of political polarization determines the functioning of territorial and decentralized models. In line with that project, I will develop my Ph.D. dissertation on individuals' attitudes toward territorial models in Latin America.
Lenoir-Legrand Pons, Ricardo
- e-mail: ricardolenoir01@yahoo.es
- Curriculum Vitae
- Research interests: 1º Disruptive narratives: destabilisation of democratic systems via disinformation campaigns. How this type of actions can change population decisions over social debates. 2º Russia penetration in the Baltic states communication sphere: media and communication campaigns to enhance conservative values against pro western optics. 3º Hybrid warfare: disinformation warfare, asymmetric, non-linear, irregular, unconventional or hybrid. Review of new warfare techniques and its deployment as a part of Russia´s foreign policy.
Azores Hernáez, Luis
- e-mail: 100408947@alumnos.uc3m.es
- Curriculum Vitae
- Research interests: My research interests focus on political attitudes and public opinion, particularly regarding the adoption of green policies. I am interested in exploring the causes and consequences of green policies and environmentalism at both societal and political levels. My work seeks to understand the drivers behind the implementation of these policies and their impact on political actors, party dynamics, and society as a whole.
López Blanco, José David
- e-mail: josedavid.lopez.blanco@uc3m.es
- Página personal
- Curriculum Vitae
- Research interests: My research focuses on migration and ethnic relations. In his thesis "Beyond the dichotomy: Reframing Internal and International Migrations", he aims to bridge the traditional division between both categories of migrations as two different, and practically isolated, bodies of research. He is also interested in demographic topics such as fertility intentions and comparative sociological studies in southern European countries.
Bedasheva, Olena
- e-mail: olena.bedasheva@uc3m.es
- Página personal
- Curriculum Vitae
- Research interests: My research interests are in Political sociology, political participation, social movements, civil society, political regimes, authorian regimes, Eastern Europe.
Lorente Labrado, Patricia
- e-mail: plorente@pa.uc3m.es
- Curriculum Vitae
- Research interests: My research focuses on the measurement and operationalization of effort. In my thesis, I examine the sociodemographic determinants of student motivation and persistence, particularly in relation to achievement gaps.
Brassac, Pierre
- e-mail: pbrassac@pa.uc3m.es
- Curriculum Vitae
- Research interests: households' asset portfolio & wealth inequality in Western Europe & the U.S.A. since the late 19th century.
Mahmoud, Isabel
- e-mail: mmahmoud@clio.uc3m.es
- Curriculum Vitae
- Research interests: I am interested in studying: 1º The interplay between the demand for and supply of the far-right populist parties in Europe. 2º The interplay between regional-level and national-level politics. 3º Social norms and political beliefs’ building and updating processes, and the role of media in shaping both. 4º Multiple identities and intersectionality, the determinants and consequences of discrepancies between perceived and actual levels of discrimination, and their impact on political behaviour.
Caihuelas Navajas, Berta
- e-mail: bcaihuel@clio.uc3m.es
- Página personal
- Curriculum Vitae
- Research interests: My thesis focuses on the influence of contexts on political behavior by socio-economic status in affluent democracies. In particular, I examine the factors behind the long-term decline in class-based voting, the class gap in voter turnout, and increasing turnout inequality by education. My research interests also expand to political inequalities related to socio-economic status and gender.
Marfil de la Torre, Miguel
- e-mail: mmarfil@clio.uc3m.es
- Curriculum Vitae
- Research interests: My research interests focus on the institutional drivers of public opinion. More particularly, my PhD dissertation explores the relationship between different welfare state policies and dimensions and their potential effects on political attitudes, paying particular attention to support for democracy. To do so, I draw on institutionalist and incentive-based approaches to understand how institutional performance shapes attitudes and behaviours. On the other hand, I am also interested in the sociology of religions from a comparative perspective. This alternative line of research explores the consequences of religious regulation at the institutional level.
Caro Sachetti, Florencia
- e-mail: florencia.caro@alumnos.uc3m.es
- Curriculum Vitae
- Research interests:Florencia's research experience and interests span across various fields, including labour inclusion, gender, migration, the care economy and social protection. Her PhD research sheds light on the job mobility patterns of migrant domestic workers. More precisely, she explores whether domestic work is a stepping stone or a trap in the labour market for migrants vis-a-vis native women amidst different economic, policy and technological cycles.
Maycas Sardi, José Ignacio
- e-mail: j.maycas@clio.uc3m.es
- Página personal
- Curriculum Vitae
- Research interests: My research interest lies in the fields of comparative politics, political socialization and identity politics based on social interactions and the formation of groups and norms. My dissertation aims to explore how contextual changes affect the local community and its socialization dynamics. In the first project, I focus on the impact of tourist exposure on civic norms. To do so I take advantage of a quasi-experimental scenario that led some Spanish municipalities to be exposed to an increasing trend of transient population during the last decades.
Carrero Rodríguez, Javier
- e-mail: javier.carrero@uc3m.es
- Página personal
- Curriculum Vitae
- Research interests: Since 2018 I have worked at the Discrimination and Inequality Lab (D-Lab, UC3M), where we study discrimination in the labor market, mainly related to ethnicity. My research interests also include gender discrimination, social inequality, the welfare state and electoral behavior.
Muñiz Mejuto, Ángel
- e-mail: angel.muniz@alumnos.uc3m.es
- Curriculum Vitae
- Research interests: Migration, remittances, land reforms, and their impact on economic development and public finances in historical contexts, with a focus on 19th and 20th-century Spain.
Catelén, Ana Laura
- e-mail: anacatelen@gmail.com
- Curriculum Vitae
- Research interests: My research interests focus on the combination of macroeconomics, development, history, and political science. In particular, I am interested in Latin American and Argentinean economic history from the late 19th century to the present. Under the supervision of Esteban Nicolini, my dissertation focuses on the effects of economic policy on the cyclical dynamics of the Argentinian economy.
Nadaraia, Khatia
- e-mail: khatia.nadaraia@uc3m.es
- Página personal
- Currículum vitae
- Research interests: Khatia Nadaraia is a predoctoral fellow at University Carlos III Madrid. Herresearch interests include early childhood experiences and adult outcomes;social sources of stress and health inequalities; as well as individual perceptualfactors that make psychological stress stressful. Specifically, she is interested in which exogenous regularities operate nowadays that create recurrent psychological stress, and thus have severe consequences on population health and well-being. Her PhD thesis, supervised by Professor Javier Garcia Polavieja de Perera, draws on the interdisciplinary framework of stress research, and investigates the lasting consequences of early childhood material deprivation on self-regulation (depressed mood) and cognitive aging in later life. PhD Thesis Working Title: Social Background, early-experiences, and adult health outcomes.
Dolan, Leo
- e-mail: leo.dolan@alumnos.uc3m.es
- Curriculum Vitae
- Research interests: I’m interested in how both today and throughout history we can observe huge variations in the relationship between companies and their workforces as well as wider society. My PhD focuses on the period when we arguably saw these relationships at the most extreme – the African colonial state. Creating insight into the mechanisms that determine such differences has involved modelling labour market conditions, understanding institutional contexts and changes, analysing different measures of firm’s profitability as well as constructing various worker welfare estimates over time.
Núñez Alañón, Lidia
- e-mail: linuneza@pa.uc3m.es
- Curriculum Vitae
- Research interests: My primary areas of interest lie in political behavior, particularly the process of forming political attitudes. As a result, I have a special focus on studies related to socialization and youth, and I consider a gender perspective crucial in this context. Consequently, my thesis will delve into the gender gap in political attitudes, aiming to gain a deeper understanding of its origins and determining factors.
Fang, Boyu
- e-mail: boyu.fang@alumnos.uc3m.es
- Curriculum Vitae
- Research interests: My current research interest is in “Overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia”. In particular, I am interested in their migration experience, remittance pattern and business success. My previous research focuses on immigrant entrepreneurship of Chinese students studying abroad. I found that the international mobility experience significantly promotes the entrepreneurial intention of Chinese students studying abroad.
Perales Oliver, Nadal
- e-mail: 100394855@alumnos.uc3m.es
- Página personal
- Curriculum Vitae
- Research interests: I am primarily interested in the historical determinants and legacies of collective action and social capital. My dissertation delves into the long-term continuities between the remote past and modern political behavior, with a strong focus on the mechanisms and processes that sustain this persistence. Particularly during aggregated analysis, I explore the role of long-run population dynamics in constraining or facilitating historical persistence.
Femi-Oladunni, Opeyemi Afolabi
- e-mail: afoladunni@gmail.com
- Curriculum Vitae
- Research interests: My research interests are in examining social history, economic inequality during the inter-war years, and the development of human capital in rural institutions using micro evidence.
Rubio Cabáñez, María
- e-mail: maria.rubio@uc3m.es
- Página personal
- Curriculum Vitae
- Research interests: My primary research interest consists in analyzing how environmental factors affect children’s health. Concretely, I focus on several mechanisms through which environment could affect individuals from different social classes from while in utero until childhood. In the first project, I concentrate on the prenatal period, analyzing how access to the mechanisms through which mothers protect themselves from extreme temperatures during pregnancy affects the health at birth of the newborns depending on their socioeconomic status. Specifically, I study how changes in energy prices affect birth outcomes through their effect on mothers’ exposure to extreme temperatures, differentiating by socioeconomic status. In the second project, I focus on the childhood period. In particular, I study how the presence of outdoor areas, such as parks, affects the well-being of children depending on their socioeconomic status. Furthermore, I also analyze whether the effect of outdoor areas differs depending on the characteristics of the neighborhood where children live.
Fernández Caba, Rodrigo
- e-mail: rodferna@clio.uc3m.es
- Página personal
- Curriculum Vitae
- Research interests: I'm a PhD candidate with very broad interests. From a theoretical perspective, I'm very interested in political philosophy and political theory. However, there are two main fields of empirical research I am very keen on, namely: political psychology and comparative politics. From an individual perspective, I am mostly interested in the relationship between voters and parties, how the former process political information and how biases affect this process, and how the latter can influence voter's decisions. I study topics like party competition and electoral behavior from a political psychology perspective. More specifically, right now I am focused on the potential consequences of affective polarization.
San Román del Pozuelo, Álvaro
- e-mail: alvaro.sanroman@uc3m.es
- Página personal
- Curriculum Vitae
- Research interests: My dissertation, Geographical Resentments: Electoral Impacts of Public Infrastructure Developments, explores the often-overlooked negative electoral consequences of public infrastructure projects. While infrastructure projects, such as building hospitals or renewable energy facilities, are typically expected to boost electoral support for incumbents, I challenge this assumption by investigating cases where such developments can provoke voter dissatisfaction. Using geo-localized data and spatial econometrics, I examine how territorial competition and the perceived distribution of public goods create divergent electoral responses, particularly in regions that feel excluded or underserved by new infrastructure projects.
Fernández Gutiérrez, Álvaro
- e-mail: alvferna@clio.uc3m.com
- Página personal
- Curriculum Vitae
- Research interests: My research interest is mainly focused on electoral behavior and public opinion. In my current research I study the impact of the political context on the formation of green attitudes in a cross-national perspective and at the individual level, and how these attitudes moderate the vote, defining a new axis of electoral competition. As secondary research interests, I am interested in affective polarization and its effects on attitudes formation, and how exogenous shocks affect electoral behavior and change perceptions and values.
Sánchez Pérez, David
- e-mail: davidsan@clio.uc3m.es
- Curriculum Vitae
- Research interests: I am currently working on the Gender Empowerment Through Politics in Classroom (G-EPIC) project, where we are studying gendered political inequality from an intersectional perspective. My research interests also include political socialization and Affective Intelligence Theories."
Forero Torres, David Fernando
- e-mail: davidforerotorres@gmail.com
- Curriculum Vitae
- Research interests: I am interested in Industrialization, structural change, Latin American economy, History of economic development, Latin American regional integration, and external trade diversification.
Serrano Serrat, Josep
- e-mail: josep.serrano@uc3m.es
- Página personal
- Curriculum Vitae
- Research interests: My primary research interest consists in analyzing the role of different types of skills on political preferences, focusing on contextual factors that shape this relation. Concretely, engaging in the debates about specific skills and redistribution preferences I analyze how this relation is moderated by occupational context. In a second project, I analyze how changes in occupational unemployment rates drive anti-immigration attitudes, showing that they have a stronger effect the greater the amount of occupation-specific skills. I show that professionals and managers are the groups more affected by changes in the occupational context. I have presented my work at the annual meetings of the European Political Science Association (EPSA), the European Consortium for Sociological Research (ECSR), the Society for the Advancement for Socio-Economics (SASE), and the SASE/Digit Early Career Workshop.
García Aguirre, Aitor
- e-mail: 100348210@alumnos.es
- Currriculum Viitae
- Research interests: I am mainly interested in fields at the intersection of health, family, and stratification. More specifically I am working on the role of childhood cultural capital and socio-economic status in the explanation of health behavior at older ages.
Shao, Ran
- e-mail: 100483577@alumnos.uc3m.es
- Curriculum Vitae
- Research interests: My research interests are in education, identity, social proximity and networks, lifestyle, voting behaviors, social movements, market emergence, political leadership and lobbying.
Gonzales Santisteban, Sara Ynés
- e-mail: saraynes.gonzales@uc3m.es
- Página personal
- Curriculum Vitae
- Research interests: I am a Peruvian economist doing a PhD in Social Science at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, where I also did a master’s in social science. I am currently working on DEEPEN, a NORFACE-funded research project (2020-2023) that explores the democratic governance of capital-funded occupational pension schemes in Europe. For my PhD, I study socio-economic gaps in workers' participation in private pension schemes in 10 European countries. More generally, I am interested in the fields of sociological analysis, comparative politics, and quantitative methods applied to sociology.
Suero García, Cristina
- e-mail: cristina.suero@uc3m.es
- Página personal
- Curriculum Vitae
- Research interests: I am currently working on her doctoral thesis titled “A reversal in the Spanish fertility trends? An exploration about how a shift in the educational level of the population may affect fertility trends”. Her research interests focus on family sociology, patterns of family formation and global changes in family structures. She is also interested on the causes and consequences of low and late fertility in Europe, the use of new reproductive technologies and contraceptive behavior.
Jen, Yu-Chien
- e-mail: 100440624@alumnos.uc3m.es
- Curriculum Vitae
- Research interests: Trained as an environmental economist, I have been developing research interests in both environmental and agricultural history by employing primary sources and descriptive data. My PhD thesis investigates agricultural production when adverse weather caused by the Mount Tambora eruption from 1815 to 1816, specifically focusing on the case studies of England, Taiwan, and China. In addition, it emphasizes the importance of adaptation and resilience utilizing factor endowments to sustain the harvest conditions when climatic shocks occur.
Varela García, Nicolás
- e-mail: nicolas.varela@uc3m.es
- Página personal
- Curriculum Vitae
- Research interests: My research focuses on the political economy of Spanish monetary policy during the Franco dictatorship. I explore three main topics: the economic repercussions of decisions about monetary policy, the political dynamics behind monetary policy, and the evolution of the firms’ market power that led to the international opening of the Spanish market during the Franco era.
Kaushik, Kavyanjali
- e-mail: kavyanjali.kaushik@uc3m.es
- Página personal
- Curriculum Vitae
- Research interests: Kavyanjali Kaushik is a final-year PhD student, specialising in computational social science to explore the identity-driven effects of social media networks on political behaviour. Her dissertation, "Nationalist Mobilisation in the Digital Age: The Role of Social Media in Driving Support for Radical Right Parties", examines how social media platforms activate individual identities within broader network processes, shaping exclusionary nationalism and driving radical-right mobilisation.
Villegas Santana, Raúl
- e-mail: raul.villegas@alumnos.uc3m.es
- Curriculum Vitae
- Research interests: My research interests focus on social mobility, social stratification, sociology of work and public opinion. I aim to take an interdisciplinary approach with a sociological grounding in order to understand different trends in public opinion on political issues.
Khalid, Shamaila
- e-mail: shamailakhalid90@gmail.com
- Curriculum Vitae
- Research interests: My research focuses on the effectiveness of work-life balance policies in reducing stress among employees, comparing the comprehensive welfare regimes of Nordic countries (Sweden, Norway) with the liberal regimes of Anglo-Saxon countries (United States, United Kingdom). By analyzing policies such as parental leave, flexible working arrangements, and childcare support.This study will provide insights into the strengths and weaknesses of each regime, offering policy recommendations to enhance work-life balance and reduce stress.
Yükçü, Onur
- e-mail: oyukcu@clio.uc3m.es
- Página personal
- Curriculum Vitae
- Research interests:My research interests are history of markets and historical political economy of developing World. My doctoral research explores commodity market integration and changing merchant profiles in Turkey during the nation-building process.
