She is Visiting Senior Fellow at the Centre for Women, Peace and Security, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and Ramón y Cajal Researcher at the Institute for Advanced Social Studies, Spanish National Research Council (IESA-CSIC). She is a partner in the Jean Monnet Centre’s work package “Digital Resilience in the EU.”
Previously, she was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, where she led the EU-funded project Rethinking Peace-building: Women, Revolution, Exile, and Conflict Resolution in Yemen. She has also held research and teaching positions at universities in Spain and Portugal, including the University of Granada, Nova University of Lisbon, the University of Castilla-La Mancha, and the Complutense University of Madrid. Her research focuses on gender justice, peace-building, and civil society empowerment in the MENA region, combining academic research with development and policy engagement. Her research has been supported by Horizon Europe, the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, and Ramón y Cajal, and her work has appeared in journals including Middle East Law and Governance, Politics, Religion & Ideology, and Human Rights Review.