Lecturer in Political Science at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. From 2010 to 2015 she was a ‘Ramón y Cajal’ researcher at the Institute of Government and Public Policies (IGOP) of this university. She has been professor of comparative public policy at the University of Kent (2004-2010) and Marie Curie researcher at the European University Institute in Florence (2000-2003). She holds a PhD in public policy from the London School of Economics and a Master’s degree in sociological research from the University of Essex. She has published articles in numerous international scientific journals. She is co-editor with Ana M. Guillén of The Spanish Welfare State in European Context (Ashgate, 2011) and editor of The Transformation of Care in European Societies (Palgrave, 2014). Two of her most recent publications are “Policy Change and Partisan Politics: Understanding Family Policy Differentiation in Two Similar Countries”in Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, (2019) and “Tensions between quantity and quality in social investment agendas: working conditions of ECEC teaching staff in Italy and Spain” in Journal of European Social Policy(2019). Her main areas of research are comparative public policy and welfare state reform. She is co-president of the Spanish Social Policy Network (REPS) and member of the executive committee of the European Social Policy Network (ESPAnet). She has been awarded with the ICREA ACADEMIA prize in the 2018 edition (https://www.icrea.cat/es/icrea-academia).