Research
Projects across educational inequality, academic careers, and social networks
I work on collaborative projects that connect substantive questions about inequality with longitudinal, quantitative, and relational methods. The portfolio below highlights current and recent work.
Current research
DPhil research · 2024-present
Networks and gender disparities across academic careers
My doctoral research examines how co-authorship and research-funding networks shape gendered career trajectories among education researchers in Latin America. It brings together research-on-research, organisational context, and longitudinal network modelling.
Role: Doctoral researcher
Institution: University of Oxford
Supervisors: Alis Oancea and Lars-Erik Malmberg
longitudinal networks gender higher education
2025-present
Choosing schools with a click
Studies how parents and guardians appropriate information about Chile’s School Admission System and how digital information shapes school choice.
Grant: FONDECYT Regular 1250492
Role: Research Assistant · CIAE, Universidad de Chile
2023-present
Gender segregation across knowledge areas
Investigates the background, moderators, and consequences of gender segregation in Chilean academic secondary education.
Grant: FONDECYT Regular 1231930
PI: Lorena Ortega
Role: Research Assistant · CIAE, Universidad de Chile
Recent collaborations
2026
Making Europe a global magnet for international students
British Academy Pump Priming collaboration between UK and EU partners, led by Rachel Brooks at the University of Oxford.
Grant: PPHE26\100097
Role: Research Assistant
2026
Relational opportunity structures in adolescence
Examines how extracurricular activity contexts shape social status and peer-network dynamics.
Role: Visiting Doctoral Researcher
Host: Diego Palacios · Society and Health Research Centre, Universidad Mayor
2025-2026
From access to inclusion
Research on cross-class dynamics in academically selective institutions, supported by a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship.
Grant: PFSS25\250031
PI: Paulina Rodríguez · University of Oxford
Role: Research Assistant
2025-2026
STEM Gender Programme impact evaluation
Impact evaluation with female 10th-grade students and STEM teachers for UNDP and Chile’s Ministry of Education.
Grant: UNDP-CHL-00141
PI: Pilar Reyes · CIAE, Universidad de Chile
Role: Research Assistant
2025-2026
Learning achievements of migrant students
Research for Chile’s Education Quality Assurance Agency on cultural, policy, and educational-practice factors that support migrant students’ learning.
PI: Lorena Ortega · CIAE, Universidad de Chile
Role: Research Assistant
2025-2026
Support and care networks among older adults
A literature review focused on sibling bonds, funded through Universidad Mayor’s Puente Funding Scheme.
PI: Francisca Ortiz · Universidad Mayor
Role: Research Assistant
2025-2026
The EthOS Project
A collaboration hosted by Durham University’s Institute of Advanced Study.
PI: Catherine Montgomery
Role: Research Assistant
2025
Earlier projects
My earlier work includes gender gaps in mathematics, knowledge production in Latin American universities, teacher-student interaction networks, reader education, and social participation. The complete record is available in my CV.