mar c. espadafor
Curriculum vitae

CV

Positions, education, awards, conferences and service. The full document is available as a PDF.

Positions

  • 2026 –Deputy DirectorDirectorate for Public Policy, Presidency of the Government of Spain
  • 2025Senior Policy AnalystDirectorate for Public Policy, Presidency of the Government of Spain
  • 2024 – 2025Senior Policy AnalystNational Office of Foresight & Strategy, Presidency of the Government of Spain
  • 2023 – 2024Postdoctoral ResearcherUNED, Madrid — Horizon Europe, MapIneq
  • 2022Research FellowINVEST, University of Turku
  • 2018 – 2022PhD ResearcherDepartment of Social and Political Sciences, European University Institute

Education

  • 2018 – 2023PhD in Political and Social SciencesEuropean University Institute, Florence — supervisor: Fabrizio Bernardi
  • 2021Visiting ScholarCenter for Demography and Ecology, University of Wisconsin–Madison
  • 2016 – 2018MA in Social SciencesInstituto Carlos III–Juan March, Madrid
  • 2014 – 2015BA in Political Science — First ClassNottingham Trent University (Erasmus+)
  • 2012 – 2016BA in Political and Administration Sciences — Summa Cum LaudeUniversidad de Murcia

Scholarships and awards

  • 2024LIVES Centre visiting grantUniversity of Lausanne
  • 2022INVEST visiting grantINVEST Centre, University of Turku
  • 2021ECSR Network Workshop GrantEuropean Consortium for Sociological Research
  • 2021US Visiting GrantEuropean University Institute
  • 2018 – 2022Salvador de Madariaga predoctoral scholarshipSpanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness
  • 2017 – 2018Research Collaboration ScholarshipUniversidad Carlos III de Madrid

Conferences

  • 2023DIGCLASS International Workshop
  • 2023LIVES Conference, Lausanne
  • 2022PAA Annual Conference
  • 2020, 2021ECSR Annual Conference
  • 2020, 2021, 2022ISA RC28
  • 2020“Causality in the Social Sciences”, DWZH, Germany
  • 2020, 2022, 2023Convegno SISEC
  • 2018ESS First Spanish Congress, Madrid

Academic service

  • ReviewerRationality and Society (RSSM), European Sociological Review, REIS, and the Spanish State Research Agency (AEI)
  • OrganiserUNED50 International Seminar, Madrid (2023)
  • OrganiserECSR Network Workshop on compensatory advantage, EUI Florence (2022)
  • Co-organiserInequality Working Group and Distant CLIC, EUI (2019–2021) — seminars, workshops and a yearly conference
  • ChairDistant CLIC Conference (2020)
  • FounderThe first peer-mentoring programme in the EUI's Department of Social and Political Sciences

Software and languages

  • StataAdvanced
  • RAdvanced
  • LaTeXAdvanced
  • SpanishNative
  • EnglishFluent
  • ItalianIntermediate
  • FrenchBeginner