I am a University Researcher at the University of Helsinki. My work is situated in Science & Technology Studies (STS), drawing on different social scientific approaches. My research focuses on studying knowledge production and material practices associated with socio-technical controversies and a variety of policy issues, having worked on topics such as antimicrobial resistance, pandemic preparedness, and response, biobanking and the development of water infrastructures. My current work  studies the reconfiguration of more-than-human relations in aquatic environments, with special attention to different modes of knowledge production related to environmental threats to aquatic ecosystems. More concretely, I look at the proliferation of algal blooms in Finnish water bodies and the way interaction between humans and environment changes in the context of the ongoing ecological crisis.

This work falls across two parallel and inseparable projects for me. First, Aquatic Intersections explores how our relationship with water is mediated by capitalist and ecologist rationales, often entailing grave forms of inequality. Second, the Centre for the Social Study of Microbes is the result of a bunch amazing people in Helsinki who want to understand how humans relate to invisible nonhuman others, and so we collectively look at microbes as social actors in all their diversity.

During my career I have worked in a wide range of topics related to the social aspects of science and technology: public controversies, identity, social movements, public infrastructures, water distribution, pandemics, global health, risk and security, governance, biobanks, public and stakeholder engagement, knowledge production, and policy implementation. Cutting across all these areas, I have developed a deep understanding of knowledge making and implementation practices and the role they play during sociotechnical controversies. In this wider academic sense, I am interested in Science & Technology Studies, more-than-human approaches, feminist epistemologies, and critical social theory.

I also do some non-academic writing every once in a while (mostly in Spanish), mainly poetry, more rarely essay and once I wrote a short story. Quite proud of that one. An old poetry blog can be found here. Newer stuff may go to the multi-authored Una Botella en la Mar blog or to this very site.

Last but not least, I also engage in music making. I have been playing bass since I was 16, I used to play french horn and trying to get back to it. I struggle to also play some guitar and sing, so it happens mostly in private. I also love recording stuff and pretending to be a producer, most of the time with my own stuff, but also with the sounds of others, if they let me. But my main project at the moment is an experimental rock trio called Pull, for which an ever coming first album is on the making.

This is therefore a hybrid site. It brings together all those identities and the languages they associate with. It may not be coherent most of the time, but it is the result of very specific identity struggles and the context I see myself embedded in. Hope you enjoy and suffer those struggles as much as I do!

Please, do get in touch if any of this ressonates with you :).