about

Where it all starts

A village on the banks of the Tormes

I was born and raised in Encinas de Abajo, a small village on the banks of the Tormes river, in the province of Salamanca. Growing up there taught me to value the quality of life of the countryside, but also to notice the grievances that rural areas endure. Like anyone's, my socialisation was shaped by the place I come from.

2020 · The spark

Learning to read the world through maps

The academic spark came in 2020, during the Master's in Political and Electoral Analysis at UC3M. There, Toni Rodon taught me to read social life through maps, exogeneity and, above all, geography. That is when I found my path, right at the intersection between my personal background and what I truly wanted to research.

My first project asked a question that had followed me since childhood: how does depopulation shape the way people vote?

Today · Place matters

From empty villages to crowded cities

Geography never let go of me. I soon moved on to other place-based phenomena that, again for personal reasons, I found compelling: how rising rents shape voting in big cities, the rural–urban divide, or the political behaviour of farmers.

Linking political geography and place-based phenomena with electoral behaviour is what drives my research today. See my publications →