ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 2020 PhD in Translation, University of Vigo
- 2015 MA in Translation for International Communication,
University of Vigo - 2014 BA in Translation and Interpreting, University of Vigo
EMPLOYMENT
- Research fellow, School of Humanities, Tallinn University, December 2020-Present
- Senior Adviser of Doctoral Studies, Tallinn University, October 2023-Present
- Visiting lecturer, University of Vigo, 2021- Present, PhD programme Traducción y Paratraducción
- Visiting research fellow, School of Humanities, Tallinn University, September 2020-June 2021
- Doctoral research fellow, University of Vigo, August 2018-February 2020
- Visiting research fellow, School of Modern Languages, Newcastle University, July 2019
- Visiting research fellow , Centre for Translation and Interpreting, Queens University Belfast, January – June 2021
- Translator/reviser, Light for the World, 2019-2020
- Translator, Algar Editorial, 2017
- Translator, Online Ocigrup, Barcelona, 2010-2012
RESEARCH GRANTS
- 10/2022–12/2025 ─ Grant for the research project “Translation, migration, and democracy: Managing multilingual access to information in the greater Helsinki area and in Tallinn”. Funded by the Kone Foundation. Project Partner.
Total: € 376 800
Estonian project part: € 97 600 - 04/2022–03/2024 ─ Grant for the project cluster “Work, Wellbeing and Communication in the Globalising and Digitalising World” (WoWeC). Funded by Tallinn University Research Fund. Co-coordinator (School of Humanities).
Total: € 100 000 - 12/2020–12/2022 ─ Grant for the research project “Ideology in Translation. Political Discourse on Migration in the Media” (MOBJD674). Funded by the European Regional Development Fund. Financing institution: Estonian Research Council. Principal Investigator.
Total: € 102 000 - 10/2021–09/2022 ─ Grant for the research project “Improving communication with migrants for crisis preparedness: lessons learned from COVID-19”. Funded by the Council of the Baltic Sea States. Principal Investigator/Project Leader.
Total: € 70 308 - 2018 -2020 ─ Doctoral fellowship for the PhD project “On the Translation of Verse Form”. Funded by the University of Vigo.
Total: € 41 000
Translation, migration, and democracy
Work, wellbeing and communication in the globalising and digitalising world (WoWeC)
Improving communication with migrants for crisis preparedness: lessons learned from COVID-19
Ideology in translation. Political discourse on migration in the media
On the Translation of Verse Form. Shakespeare’s Sonnets into Spanish
PARTICIPATION IN OTHER PROJECTS
2025 – 2028 WIRE – Widening + Innovation & Research Excellence, funded by the Horizon Widera Programme. Project Management Officer & WP8 Lead.
2025 – 2027 C-Accelerate+ – Accelerating the Role of Culture and Creativity through Education and Innovation, EIT HEI Initiative, funded by the European Union.
2025 – 2027 FilmEU Plus – European Universities Alliance for Film and Media Arts, funded by the European Education and Culture Executive Agency.
2023 – 2024 C-Accelerate – Accelerating the role of Creative Communities through the Exploration of Entrepreneurial Education and Radical creativity within European Education, EIT HEI Initiative, funded by the European Union. Adviser.
2023 – 2024 Advancing Trans-Regional Border Studies, funded by the Horizon Europe Twinning programme. Coordination of activities on research capacity building (WP4, “Strengthening TLU’s research management” and WP5, “Attracting and nurturing early career researchers”).
2023 – 2024 UNITeD – Universities for deep tech and entrepreneurship, EIT HEI Initiative, funded by the European Union. Adviser.
2022 – 2023 Graduate School in Culture Studies and Arts, Astra Programme, funded by the Estonian Ministry of Education through the European Union Regional Development Fund. Curator and coordinator of trainings for junior researchers.
2022 – 2023 TLÜ TEE, Astra Programme, funded by the Estonian Ministry of Education through the European Union Regional Development Fund. Curator and coordinator of trainings for junior researchers.
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