In my research, I embrace an interdisciplinary approach and a dialectical understanding rooted in the plural tradition of critical theory, combining political theory and social sciences to unravel the pathologies of late modernity and explore transformative possibilities. I have a specific interest in populism/populist ecologies, religion, mythmaking, and in Eastern and Southern Europe. Similarly, I have a deep political-philosophical interest in the arts, particularly in their ability to both dissect the present moment and envision plausible futures. Drawing on a dialectical view of the relationship between practical rationality and imagination, I combine political philosophy with the arts to examine the intersections between democratic and contemporary disruptions, such as populism, ecological emergency, and the AI revolution.

My research is also partly connected to funded projects:
Current Projects:

• 2024-2026 Project Co-Leader (with Miguel de Beistegui). “Pathologies of Capitalist Societies and the Rise of Authoritarianism: A Philosophical-Literary Approach to Ustopias in Atwood, Houellebecq, and Ishiguro” (Project PID2022-142130NB-I00, funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and FEDER, EU).
  By combining political philosophy and literature, and drawing on M. Atwood’s concept of “ustopia,” this project explores the dialectical interplay between utopian and critical-dystopian elements in the novels of Ishiguro, Houellebecq, and Atwood as critiques of modernity.
• 2022-2024 Project Leader. Far-right and the Transformation of Nature in Eastern and Southern Europe, Centre for Studies on Planetary Wellbeing, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Planetary Wellbeing Segment PLAWB00722.
  Based on qualitative social science methods, this project examines the populist pathologies of Europe’s (semi-)periphery, focusing on the rise of new authoritarian ecologies in countries such as Spain, Greece, and Romania. (For further details: here for Romania; here for Spain, and here for Greece)
• 2023-2025 Researcher. PNRR Grant “Doing Environmental (In)justice: A Theory in Praxis EcoJust” (Project ID: 760077/23.05.2023, funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU). (Project Leader: Irina Velicu).
  This interdisciplinary project investigates environmental (in)justice by combining ethnographic work and critical thinking, examining various conflicts in Eastern Europe (Romania) within the broader European context.
• 2023-2024 Researcher. Screening Social Transformations: 1990-2021 (Project Leader: Constantin Parvulescu).
  Grant from the Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitization, CNCS – UEFISCDI, Romania, project number PN-III-P4-PCE-2021-0141 (June 2022 – December 2024).
  SCREEN-SOCIAL highlights and explores the critical role of Romanian cinema and narrative television in debates relevant to the transformation of Romanian postsocialist society, 1990-2021. My role has been to combine critical theory with Cristi Puiu’s film as a form of social analysis and critique in postcommunist Romania.
• 2024-2025 Collaborator. “Mutations of Visual Motives in the Public Sphere: Representations of Power in Spain 2017-2021 – Pandemic, Climate Change, Gender Identities, and Racial Conflicts” (Project I+D financed by the Ministry of Science and Innovation, REF: PID2021-126930OB-I00, Project Leaders: I. Pintor and G. Salvadó Corretger).
  The project is dedicated to the systematic analysis of visual motifs and the current transformation of the public sphere in Spain. It examines the transformation of the iconographies of the public sphere through four key vectors: the pandemic, climate change awareness, the rearticulation of gender identities, and racial conflicts. By combining political philosophy, political ecology, and film, I explore the rearticulation of gender identities in times of climate emergency and populism.