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.
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.
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.
Macedo Joao, José Alexandre
- e-mail: j.alexjoao@gmail.com
- Curriculum Vitae
- Research interests: My main research interests are public policy, political economy and economic history. Currently, my work is focused on analysing the impacts of public policies in the Iberian Peninsula during the 19th and 20th centuries, with a focus on the agricultural sector. In addition, I am working on improving my knowledge of statistical analysis and econometrics, particularly in the development of forecasting models - especially those aimed at predicting commodities output. I am particularly interested in combining my interest in the study of state policies with the application of advanced statistical modelling techniques. My goal is to contribute to the design of more effective and informed public policies by providing decision-makers with solid, data-based knowledge that improves policy outcomes and promotes sustainable development.
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.
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.
Berkay Cihan, Ulas
- e-mail: ulascihan0@gmail.com
- Curriculum Vitae
- Research interests: In this PhD study, I analyse the impact of the changing economic and political policies and institutions of the Ottoman Empire in the mid-19th century on the emergence of the Kurdish revolts and the effects of the economic coercion instruments that were put into use around the practices of Turkish nation-building. At the same time, I conceptualise that the economic institutional transformation that began in the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century was built on security and the suppression of rebellion in a way that would permeate the following centuries.
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.
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.
Martínez Pérez, Héctor
- e-mail: hmartine@clio.uc3m.es
- Curriculum Vitae
- Research interests: I am primarily interested in how digital technologies and artificial intelligence (AI) transform politics in authoritarian regimes at four levels: citizens and social movements (opposition dynamics and repression), autocratic elites, authoritarian institutions (legislatures, elections, local and regional institutions), and foreign policy / international relations (how authoritarian regimes share digital repression and surveillance tools to repress the population, and how they leverage them against democratic countries), with a special focus on Russia and China.
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.
Maycas Sardi, José Ignacio
- e-mail: jmaycas@clio.uc3m.es
- Página personal
- Curriculum Vitae
- Research interests: I am interested in political behavior and comparative politics, with a strong focus on quantitative methods. My PhD research examines the dynamic interplay between context and socialization processes. Specifically, I explore how environmental changes shape a) community socialization, b) family socialization, and c) political socialization. Across my work, I investigate diverse phenomena: how touristification impacts community participation, how unexpected election outcomes affect parents' efforts to transmit identity traits to their children, and how economic hardship influences the formation of partisan identification.
Camilot, Tommaso
- e-mail: 100481252@alumnos.uc3m.es
- Curriculum Vitae
- Research interests: My research interests lie between the fields of political economy, political trust, and political psychology, focusing on how economic, social, and psychological factors affect trust towards political institutions when there is a shock in economic policies. Specifically, I analyze how changes in environmental and redistribution policies generate individual-level distrust towards democratic institutions on the basis of sociotropy and zero-sum thinking. My work aims at contributing to the understanding of feelings of economic uncertainty and other micro-level characteristics cause confidence in democratic institutions to decrease.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Narbondo Allende, Ignacio
- e-mail: 100549014@alumnos.uc3m.es
- Curriculum Vitae
- Research interests: My research interests focus on the long-term dynamics of the agricultural sector in Uruguay since the late 19th century, with a particular emphasis on land rent, income distribution and natural resource use. My PhD project is focused on the analysis of land rent and land embodied in livestock exports in Uruguay between 1870 and 1970.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Terraza Palanca, Javier
- e-mail: javier.terraza@uc3m.es
- Curriculum Vitae
- Research interests: I am writing my doctoral thesis on the cultural battle among European political elites over the conceptualisation of Europe, analysing how these framings have evolved and what determines their adoption. A key focus is whether the rise of the radical right has displaced the liberal conceptualisation of Europe in favour of an ethno-cultural one. Beyond this, my research explores the effects of relative deprivation on support for independence, socialisation on joining rebel groups, native language on societal attitudes, and orography on cultural preservation.
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.
Urbasos Arbeloa, Ignacio
- e-mail: 100538558@alumnos.uc3m.es
- Curriculum Vitae
- Research interests: I am pursuing a PhD focused on the political dimensions of the decarbonization of National Oil Companies in Latin America. My research interests encompass energy geopolitics, the geoeconomics of the energy transition, and energy diplomacy.
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.
Laglil Herradi, Abdelkarim
- e-mail: alaglil@pa.uc3m.es
- Curriculum Vitae
- Research interests: My research interests lie at the crossroads of political behavior, migration, and transnational dynamics, focusing on how remittances, diaspora politics, and the socio-political environments of both home and host states reshape socio-political relations in the home state. My work explores how migrants' connections to their communities of origin influence key socio-political phenomena, including tax aversion, redistribution preferences, electoral violence, and petty corruption. Additionally, I examine how both home and destination socio-political environments shape expatriates' expressions of loyalty toward their communities of origin. Ultimately, my work aims to contribute to the debate on whether emigration fosters or hinders democratic expansion in developing countries.
Zhang, Xiaofei
- e-mail: xiaofei.zhang@alumnos.uc3m.es
- Curriculum Vitae
- Research interests: My research focuses on housing markets in the rural to urban transition. In my PhD career, I explore the following topics: urban housing and land prices, China's housing reform and development, and the housing market mechanism.
