In my academic journey I have been fortunate to meet a good number of inspiring professors and colleagues.  I did my bachelor’s degree in Political Science at the University Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain) where Jaume Lopez‘s lectures on Games Theory and the never-ending political discussions (and activism) with my classmates motivated me to pursue a university career.

Upon finishing my bachelor’s degree, I moved to Montreal to study for a Master’s in Political Science at the University of Quebec in Montreal. I wrote my thesis on the evolution of the information society in Mexico under the guidance of Michèle Rioux. One of the achievements of the Master was the publication of the book Telmex, Slim and the Mexican Government: The ‘Know-Who factor?’ From the ‘Monopoly of the State’ to the ‘Invisible Hand of the Market’ (In French). The book analyses the privatization of Telmex and the liberalization of the Mexican telecommunications.

In 2012 I entered the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute where until 2015 I studied my PhD in Information and Knowledge Society under the enlightening supervision of Rosa Borge, Bruce Bimber and Ivan Serrano. In my PhD dissertation I studied Catalan parties and politicians’ interactions on Facebook and Twitter.  I employed a mixed-methods approach – a combination of social network analysis and statistical techniques.

After defending the PhD I was awarded a Postdoctoral fellowship in Learning Analytics and Social Media by the Social Media Lab (Toronto, Canada) where I worked under the inspiring mentorship of Anatoliy Gruzd and Philip Mai. In the lab, I took the lead in the data analysis portion of the ‘Learning Analytics for the Social Media Age’ initiative and contributed to the stream of Social Media and Politics. I had the pleasure to work with impressive colleagues such as Caroline Haythornthwaite, Jenna Jacobson, Priya Kumar, Sarah  Gilbert, Drew Paulin and Alicia Wanless-Berk.

I am currently working in the Department of Media Studies and Journalism Studies at the University of Groningen (the Netherlands) where I feel very lucky to be a member of a global and interdisciplinary team of (new) media scholars.