My CV

Current position

Ph.D. Student in Political Science (2022-Present)
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.
Thesis Project Title: “Are we better? COVID-19 Pandemic effects on political attitudes and behavior”
Supervisor: Dr. Toni Rodon.

Education

Postgraduate Degree in Data Analysis (2021-2022)
Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.

MSc in Political Analysis and Institutional Assessment (2020-2021)
Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Thesis Title: “The entry of Vox in the Spanish political institutions and its effect on citizens’ attitudes towards immigration”.

BA in Political Science and Administration (2016-2020)
Universitat de Girona, Girona, Spain.

Research

Publications

Rodon, T. & Rodríguez, I. (2024). A bitter victory and a sweet defeat: the July 2023 Spanish general election, South European Society and Politics, 28(3), pp. 335-357. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13608746.2024.2326300

Rodríguez, I., Rodon, T., Unan, A., Herbig, L., Klüver, H., & Kuhn, T. (n.d.). Benchmarking pandemic response: How the UK’s Vaccine Rollout Impacted Popular support for the EU. [Accepted for publication at the British Journal of Political Science.]

Under review

Herbig, L., Unan, A., Kuhn, T., Rodríguez, I., Rodon, T., & Klüver, H. (n.d.). Closed borders, closed minds? COVID-related border closures, EU support, and hostility towards immigrants. Under Review

Rodríguez, I. (n.d.). The dangers of legitimation: How the presence of RRPs in Parliament can affect attitudes towards immigration. Under Review

In progress

Rodríguez, I. (n.d.). Does (district) size matter? How political parties tailor targeting to different electoral contexts. [Working paper]

Rodríguez, I., Rodon, T., & Dickson, Z. (n.d.). A coordinated solution for a coordinated problem? A Civic Education experiment on climate change and attitudes towards the European Union. [Working paper]

Rodríguez, I. (n.d.). Has the Covid-19 pandemic made us better? The pandemic incidence and restrictions and their relationship with radical right voting. [Working paper]

Skills/Languages

Programming: R (Expert in Data Analysis for Political Analysis and Public Administration)
Markup: Markdown/RMarkdown, LaTeX
Natural: Spanish (native), Catalan (native), English (proficient), German (basic)

Teaching

Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Teaching Assistant

Political Behavior and Public Opinion, TA (BA in Political Science and Administration).
Actors and Political Institutions, TA (BA in Political Science and Administration).
Qualitative Methodology II, TA (BA in Political Science and Administration).
Quantitative Methodology IV, TA (BA in Political Science and Administration).

Instructor

Crash Course on Basic Statistics and R (BA in Journalism).

Universitat de Barcelona

Instructor

Seminar on voter behavior and radical right parties (Part of the “Universitat de l’Experiència” program).

Conferences

European Political Science Association, June 2025.
Presenting: Rodríguez, I. (n.d.). Does (district) size matter? How political parties tailor targeting to different electoral contexts. [Working paper]

European Political Science Association, July 2024.
Presenting: Rodríguez, I., & Rodon, T. (n.d.). A coordinated solution for a coordinated problem? A Civic Education experiment on climate change and attitudes towards the European Union as part of the COVIDEU Project. [Working paper]

European Political Science Association, June 2023.
Presenting: Rodríguez, I., Unan, A., Rodon, T., Klüver, H., & Kuhn, T. (n.d.). Benchmarking pandemic response: How the UK’s Vaccine Rollout Impacted Popular support for the EU as part of the COVIDEU Project. [Accepted for publication at the British Journal of Political Science] and Rodríguez, I., (n.d.). The dangers of legitimation: how the presence of an RRP in parliament can increase antiimmigration attitudes. [Working paper]

Midwest Political Science Association, April 2023.
Presenting: Rodríguez, I., Unan, A., Rodon, T., Klüver, H., & Kuhn, T. (n.d.). Benchmarking pandemic response: How the UK’s Vaccine Rollout Impacted Popular support for the EU as part of the COVIDEU Project. [Accepted for publication at the British Journal of Political Science]

Workshops

I, II & III COVIDEU Workshop: Project Workshop
- 2022, 2023, 2024
- University of Amsterdam, UPF, London School of Economics

RECSM Summer Methods School: Big Data: Computational Analysis of Text
- July 2022
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra
- Instructor: Carlos Arcila (Universidad de Salamanca)
- Course certificate

RECSM Summer Methods School: Multilevel I: Introduction to Multilevel Models
- July 2022
- Universitat Pompeu Fabray
- Instructors: Carla Rampichini and Leonardo Grilli (Università di Firenze)
- Course certificate

VI & X PhD Workshop on Empirical Political Science
- June 2022, June 2024
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Universitat de Barcelona

PhD Programme in Political and Social Sciences: Doctoral Workshop
- March 2022, March 2023, March 2024
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra

UPF PhD Program: Working with Concepts in the Social Sciences
- February 2022
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra
- Instructor: Frederic Schaffer (University of Massachussets)
- Course certificate

Awards and Honors

PhD Programme in Political and Social Sciences Doctoral Workshop - Best Poster Award
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra
- 2nd place
- Check out my poster