I am an urban scholar and a Marie-Skłodowska Curie Fellow at the Latin America and Caribbean Centre of the London School of Economics. My research engages with the social production of space, urbanization processes and inventive methodologies of qualitative research. I am interested in comparative urbanism and a relational understanding of urban territory from post- and decolonial perspectives for a more global approach to understanding cities. Currently, I am working on my second book project on a decolonized socio-territorial approach in urban studies.
I received my PhD in Urban Studies from ETH Zürich and hold a MA in Anthropology, Sociology and Political Sciences from the University of Zurich. I was a visiting researcher at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México UNAM in several occasions, and conducted post-doctoral studies at the Institute of Advanced Studies of the University College London, at the HafenCity University Hamburg and at the Universidad Tecnológica de La Habana José Antonio Echeverría CUJAE. I am an associated researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones Socio-Económicas de la Universidad Católica Boliviana, La Paz.
- Urban transformations
- Methods and methodologies of qualitative social research
- Post- and decolonial perspectives
- Comparative urbanism
- Critical cartography
- Regional focus: Latin America, in particular Mexico City, La Paz-El Alto (Bolivia) and Havana (Cuba)