I am a political and comparative sociologist who studies State transformations, policy instruments and professions in Latin America and Europe. I received PhD in Political Science from Sciences Po in 2024, where I had previously received an MA in Political Sociology in 2018. I am currently a Research Fellow at the Casa de Velázquez, in Madrid.

In my doctoral dissertation, I compared the politics of teacher evaluation in Mexico and Chile. Based on comparative-historical materials that include 142 interviews with bureaucratic, professional, and expert actors, written sources, statistics, and observations, my thesis explains why these two contrasted countries adopted the same instruments (standards) and analyzes their effects on bureaucracies and the teaching profession.  By exploring the political coalitions, bureaucratic capacities, and professional effects of standards, I demonstrate that these neo-managerial instruments generate new state forms. I interpret this process as a form of managerial State-formation.

In my current research project, I study the politics of income taxation in Spain, since the 1960s. Coming back to the first projects of progressive, redistributive taxation elaborated by francoist technocrats, I unveil the coalitions and expertise that sustain the taxation of income in the shift from developmentalism to neoliberalism. In studying fiscal expenditures through the lens of the new fiscal sociology, I explore income taxation as a tool of both State and capital formation. In the future, I hope to broaden the scope of this project through comparisons with France and Chile.

In the past I have also worked on energy policy as a postdoctoral researcher in the ANR project UNERGY, "Uses and contestation of energy policies". I focused on the "politics of windfall", that is how the regressive effects of energy transition policies is problematized by economic bureaucracies in order to reinforce market mechanisms.

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