Doctoral Candidates

Tamara studied at the Grenoble Institute of Political Studies, completed an academic mobility programme at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and graduated from the University of Paris-Cité in Transnational Feminist Studies. She lived in Buenos Aires and Montevideo, where she worked for two years as the Scientific and academic attachée of the French Embassy in Uruguay. 

As a member of LAC-EU, she is pursuing her PhD in the ‘Linguistic, Literary  and Cultural Studies’ programme at the Universitat de Barcelona. Her thesis, supervised by Dunia Gras and Maria Grau-Perejoan, puts forward a sociological analysis of the trajectories of Latin American and Caribbean women writers in Europe in the 21st century.

Domonkos holds a Master's degree in International Development from the University of Genoa, and a degree in Political Science from the same university. At the University of Padua, he completed a degree in Psychology and a Master's degree in Social Psychology. In 2024, he was a fellow at the European Parliament and was involved with the EU-LAT Advocacy Network. He has also worked in the human resources sector. 

As a member of LAC-EU, Domonkos conducts his research at FLACSO Argentina and KU Leuven. His dissertation revolves around green investments between the European Union and Latin America, and explores European financing of green hydrogen in Latin America. The supervisor and co-supervisor of his project are, respectively, Diana Tussie (FLACSO Argentina) and Axel Marx (KU Leuven). 

Alice holds a BA in Political Science, specialising in International Relations, from the University of Manchester. She holds an MSc in International Migration and Public Policy from the Schools of Sociology and Government at the London School of Economics.  As a researcher, she has been part of the Centre for Intercultural Global Health at the Universidad del Desarrollo in Santiago de Chile. She has also been an intern for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees at its headquarters in Geneva and has carried out consultancies for the Lima headquarters of the International Labour Organisation's Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean, and for the Geneva headquarters of the World Health Organisation.

In LAC-EU, she is a member of FLACSO Argentina and the Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales de América Latina (CONICET-FLACSO). Her doctoral project, supervised by Mercedes Botto (FLACSO Argentina) and Juan Carlos Triviño-Salazar (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), analyses health policies and migration in Argentina and Chile.

Gustavo trained as an urban planner at the Universidad Simón Bolívar in Venezuela. He is a specialist in Financial Administration from the Universidad de los Andes in Colombia and holds a Master's degree in International Administration and Global Governance from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. His professional career has led him to work in development cooperation organisations in Scandinavia –focusing on innovation management–, and to occupy different roles in the private sector in Latin America and the United States focused on financial operations and cross-border transactions. He has also taught university courses on economic analysis of urban plans and projects.

In LAC-EU, Gustavo is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Development and Environment at the University of Oslo. His research focuses on financial diplomacy, with a particular focus on EU soft power strategies to promote ecological transitions in Latin America and the Caribbean. His dissertation is supervised by Benedicte Bull, Mariel Aguilar-Støen and Elin Lerum Boasson.

Joaquin completed a law degree in Public International Law at the University of Buenos Aires, in his country.  During his undergraduate studies, he was a visiting student at the New York University Centre in Buenos Aires and the Autonomous University of Barcelona in Spain. He holds a postgraduate diploma in Economics and Finance from Universitat Pompeu Fabra and earned an LLM in Public International Law from the London School of Economics and Political Science, supported by a Chevening Scholarship. He has worked as an international law advisor in Argentina’s public administration and as a human rights advocate and researcher in the civil society sector. He also serves as a tenured teaching assistant in Human Rights at the University of Buenos Aires.

In the framework of LAC-EU, he is pursuing a PhD at KU Leuven as a researcher at its Centre for Global Governance Studies under the supervision of Jan Wouters and Gustavo Müller. His research focuses on the relationship between Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean at the UN Human Rights Council. Joaquin intends to contribute to the understanding of the dynamics related to the development of international human rights law from a cross-regional perspective.

Luciana holds a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations from Pontifícia Universidade Católica in São Paulo, Brazil, a Master’s degree in Urban Policy from Sciences Po Paris, France. Her fields of interest are the European Union's external action, Latin America studies, global environmental governance, cities and territory, and international development. She has worked as a Programme Management Officer at the UN-Habitat.

As a member of LAC-EU, she is a PhD candidate in the Political and Social Sciences programme at Universitat Pompeu Fabra and is part of the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (IBEI). Her thesis, supervised by Jacint Jordana, focuses on Latin America and the Caribbean's involvement in translational and global cities networks.

Natalia holds a Bachelor's degree in Political Science from the University of Buenos Aires. She has a Master's degree in Social Policy Design and Management from FLACSO Argentina, a specialization diploma in Politics, Evaluation, and Social Management from the same institution, and a Master's degree in Gender Studies, Identities, and Citizenship from the University of Cádiz, Spain, pursued with the support of a Fundación Carolina fellowship. She has worked at Argentina's country office of the International Organization for Migration–UN Migration and has held different management roles in Argentina's national public administration. She has contributed to academia as a research assistant at the Gino Germani Institute of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires, and in 2020 she was selected for the “Voluntary Visitor Program” of the Public Policy Institute on Human Rights of MERCOSUR.

As a member of LAC-EU, Natalia is at Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals (IBEI) and is a PhD candidate in the Political and Social Sciences program at Universitat Pompeu Fabra under the supervision of Andrea C. Bianculli. Her research focuses on the shaping of a regional gender-sensitive care agenda in Latin America through multilevel governance settings.

Victoria holds a degree in Social Sciences and a Master's in Political Science from the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Her academic work focuses on topics such as democratic erosion, hybrid regimes, populism, and the role of civil society. Throughout her career, she has studied democratic backsliding in Venezuela during the Chávez era, as well as populist experiences in Argentina, ranging from Peronism to Kirchnerism.

As a member of LAC-EU, she is pursuing a PhD at the University of York, where she conducts her research under the supervision of Jean Grugel and Saba Joshi. Her doctoral research analyses the dynamics of civil society in Latin America, exploring both the movements that support right-wing populist leaders, such as Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil and Javier Milei in Argentina, and those that resist populist attacks on democracy. This approach aims to shed light on the growth of conservative and far-right movements in the region and their impact on democratic processes.

Gabrielle holds a BCs in Economics from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and an MSc (Erasmus Mundus programme) in Economic Policy and Analysis from University Paris 7 Diderot and University Paris 13. She has held roles with UN Women as a programme analyst as well as researcher and data analyst, contributing and coordinating several flagship publications. In her most recent role, Gabrielle has worked with Equal Measures 2030 on the 2024 SDG Gender Index, leading data dissemination and analyses on pressing issues such as care and femicide.

Within the LAC-EU network, she is pursuing a PhD in Politics at the University of York, with a focus on gender equality and public policy under the supervision of Jean Grugel and Saba Joshi. Her research will explore sexual and reproductive health services in Brazil, focusing on adolescent pregnancy.

Ana is a Colombian lawyer who has a professional background in multiple jurisdictions. She acquired a deep understanding of the legal frameworks governing international trade, competition policy, and international dispute resolution during her Masters at the Sorbonne University. She also holds a minor in Government and Public Affairs from the Universidad de los Andes. She was a Bluebook trainee at the Legal Service of the European Commission and previously a foreign lawyer intern at Herbert Smith Freehills (Paris). 

As a member of LAC-EU, Ana is pursuing a PhD at KU Leuven, in its Centre for Global Governance Studies. Under the supervision of Jan Wouters she is studying the interactions of Latin American and Caribbean countries in multilateral trade governance. 

Marina is a Brazilian-Japanese researcher and an Erasmus Mundus Scholar. She holds a degree in Liberal Arts from College of the Atlantic (USA), where was awarded the Kathryn Davis Projects for Peace prize for developing a mobile library that brought books and stories to children in rural communities across Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. She recently completed an Erasmus Mundus Master’s in Children’s Literature, Media, and Culture, led by the University of Glasgow. 

As a PhD candidate in LAC-EU, Marina is pursuing her doctoral research at the Universitat de Barcelona, under the supervision of Dunia Gras and Maria Grau-Perejoan. Her work examines how Latin American literature is translated and represented in European publishing houses, with a focus on strategies that either challenge or reinforce sociopolitical stereotypes, cultural perceptions, and biases.

After living in Italy, the United States and Germany, he moved to England where he obtained a bachelor’s degree in Politics and International Relations from the University of Manchester and a master’s degree in Latin American Studies from St. Antony’ College, University of Oxford. He has collaborated with the Istituto Analisi Relazioni Internazionali (IARI), an Italian think-tank and geopolitical academy, as editor of the Latin America Desk. 

As part of LAC-EU, Luca is a PhD candidate at Sciences Po Paris. His research focuses on authority in urban environments, and on how citizens interact with the state in a variety of settings and through different means. In particular, he is interested in how new technologies and novel modes of communication can promote civic engagement and create new forms of participation in democratic processes. His thesis, grounded in empirical evidence gathered across different cities in Latin America and Europe, is conducted under the supervision of Patrick Le Galès.