Welcome to my personal website
I am an Urban Studies researcher with a background in Humanities. My work involves sonic geographies and affective vélomobilities, both fuelled by the question of how our senses shape the perception of urban space. I have done fieldwork in Colombia and Spain and I am currently undertaking research in my native Tallinn (Estonia) under the EU-funded research project VELOCARE that studies women’s vélomobility for undertaking unpaid care tasks.
As of February 2025, I am a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Tallinn. Thanks to the funding of Horizon Europe, I was able to move back to my native Estonia after 15 years spent in Barcelona. In the upcoming two years I will be studying women's mobility through the use of bicycles. I am especially interested in how and whether so-called post-socialist urbanism has affected women's uptake of cycling both in Tallinn and elsewhere in the CEE region. With this in mind, I hope to establish a feminist network of Urban Studies scholars in the Baltic region and beyond so that studying mobility and other uses of urban space from a gendered perspective would become a norm, not an anomaly. The VELOCARE project not only foresees cycling with women (and children and GoPro camera) to map their sensory experiences in the city, but thanks to the TandEM program of EIT Urban Mobility I will also hold training sessions to encourage women to start cycling. The project will have many other exciting outputs that will land here at some point.
Before starting this research project, I was funded by the Spanish Ministry of Universities to undertake individual postdoctoral research under the Margarita Salas scolarship. I used the 2-year scholarship (period in which I also became a mother) for writing up papers about my earlier research and for teaching undergraduate students in Global Studies at my alma mater, Pompeu Fabra University.
Prior to this, I was hired as a postdoctoral researcher for the EU-funded project MovingMarketplaces
that was carried out between Spain, UK, Switzerland and the Netherlands. The 3-year project was based on ethnographic researc that aimed to study how traders' mobility in and across marketplaces produces them as public space. With my wonderful colleagues Rianne van Melik, Sophie Watson, Emil van Eck, Joris Schapendonk, Marco Madella and Gunvor Jónsson we visited numerous marketplaces across the four countries, which gave way to a considerbale number of publications, including one on the tradition of street cries, which you can read here.
You can read my papers, see research-related videos and take a look at other projects I've been involved with in the Research section.