I am Associate Professor of Comparative Politics at the School of Politics, Economics & Global Affairs at IE University in Madrid (Spain). Before joining our School I held a Senior Lecturer position at Swansea University (UK), a research position at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal) and lectured at Konstanz University (Germany) and at the University of Notre Dame (USA) where I have been a visiting fellow at the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies during the academic year 2008-2009.
My research focuses on political parties, political institutions, representation, political preferences, and political behavior in Latin America and Europe. I am the coordinator of PREPPS, an expert survey examining parties' policy positions, ideology, linkages and populism in countries across the world. I am also part of Team Populism, a network studying the causes and consequences of populism.