My research line focuses on the analysis of the relationship between the arts, visual culture, society and politics in contemporary Spain during the Cold War. The development of my research is guided by critical thinking on the discipline, this has contributed to the broadening of its margins, including new research objects and studying some of the existing ones under new perspectives. I am especially interested in cultural and artistic practices associated with social movements, cultural policies and their relationship with modernisation processes, the challenges posed by the initiatives aimed at the “popularisation” of arts and culture and their crossing paths with mass media, reproduction and technologies in general, and the critical reflection on the history of art history and its relationship with politics.
My work has been awarded five academic prizes (among them the Premio Extraordinario Fin de Carrera and the Premio Extraordinario de Doctorado, U. Complutense) and has been funded after being selected in more than a dozen national and international public competitions.
I am currently the Principal Investigator (IP) of the funded research project “Larga exposición: las narraciones del arte contemporáneo español para los ‘grandes públicos’” (ref. HAR2015-67059-P MINECO/FEDER). I have also been the IP of the research project with USA “Cultura, protesta y movimientos sociales en la España contemporánea: el caso de las asociaciones vecinales” (ref. UAM-Santander, 2015/EEUU/04).
I have been part of the research groups of national and international research projects funded by the Casa de Velázquez, Fundación Carolina, MICINN/MINECO and the EU. I have also joined professional associations and international research networks such as that linked to the Marie Curie European research project “European protest movements since the Cold War”, Asociación de Historia Contemporánea (AHC) or the Oral History Network at the University of Warwick.
I have been a funded PhD visiting student at the Centre André Chastel (INHA, Paris), at the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte (Munich) and the Institute of Fine Arts (New York). As a postdoctoral researcher I have made funded research stays at the Real Academia de España en Roma, U. Birmingham (José Castillejo fellowship), U. East Anglia and Oxford-Brookes U.
I am the supervisor of 3 PhD theses, and participate in the doctoral committee of one more. I have been the tutor and supervisor of research work and research scholarships of graduate and MA students, participated in the jury of PhD thesis and MA theses.  I am reviewer for 6 scientific journals and evaluator of national research projects (ANEP). I am member of the editorial committee of the Anuario of UAM and of the scientific committee of Brumaria. I have taken part in the organisation of scientific activities such as international conferences, research seminars and symposia at CSIC and UAM. I have also organised activities of knowledge dissemination and been the curator of 2 exhibitions. The relevance of my research is accredited by invitations to give presentations in a dozen conferences in Spain, France, Italy, Germany, UK and US.
Between 2015 and 2018 I was the Coordinadora de Prácticas Externas of the Grado en Historia del Arte at UAM. Since 2018 I am the Coordinadora del Grado en Historia del Arte at UAM and, as such, responsible for the Comisión Técnica de Seguimiento del Grado en Historia del Arte.