I am currently a Senior Researcher at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain, thanks to an Atraccion de Talento Investigador grant from the Autonomous Government of Madrid. I am PI of the project "Belonging Reconfigured: A Phenomenological Study of Migrant Emotions in a Sample of Spanish Expats". In this framework, I am primarily investigating the transformations that impact the sense of belonging of migrants and expats upon relocation, including some potentially confrontational negotiations with the host society on what it means to belong or to be an outsider. My line of research seeks to shed light on the sense of belonging (what it means …
I am currently a Senior Researcher at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain, thanks to an Atraccion de Talento Investigador grant from the Autonomous Government of Madrid. I am PI of the project "Belonging Reconfigured: A Phenomenological Study of Migrant Emotions in a Sample of Spanish Expats". In this framework, I am primarily investigating the transformations that impact the sense of belonging of migrants and expats upon relocation, including some potentially confrontational negotiations with the host society on what it means to belong or to be an outsider. My line of research seeks to shed light on the sense of belonging (what it means to feel one belongs or doesn’t belong) by focusing on several key emotions that bear upon it. On the one hand, I look at nostalgia and hope as two phenomena that structure one’s relations to one’s past and future, thus articulating one’s sense of identity over time. On the other hand, I pay attention to a class of emotions that bind one’s sense of self with other people’s way of treating and relating to us: the so-called self-conscious emotions, such as pride, shame and envy. In these emotions, we often evaluate ourselves based on how we fare in our relations with our social environment. By looking at all these emotions, I seek to shed light on the temporal and social dimensions of belonging.
Recently, from October 2022 till June 2023, I was postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Subjectivity Research (Copenhagen) and affiliated to the project "Antagonistic Political Emotions" (PI: Thomas Saznto). From September 2020 till August 2022, I was a postdoc at University College Cork, Ireland. My project at UCC was entitled “The Others in Me: the Impact of Others on Self-Conscious Emotions and Self-Understanding”, and was funded by a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship in the framework of the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 programme. This project sought to shed light, from a philosophical perspective, on the intersection between human self-consciousness and sociality by focusing on the social dimensions of self-conscious emotions, such as shame, envy, pride, embarrassment, and so on.
More generally, my research focuses on topics from the philosophy of emotions and moral psychology, at the intersection of philosophy of mind and phenomenology.
