Current position

Ph.D. Student in Political Science (2022-Present)
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.
Thesis Project Title: “Challenges of the 21st Century: How politics reacts to the present”.
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

Rodríguez, I., Rodon, T., Unan, A., Herbig, L., Klüver, H., & Kuhn, T. (2025). Benchmarking pandemic response: How the UK’s Vaccine Rollout Impacted Popular support for the EU, British Journal of Political Science, 55(e35), pp- 1-16. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007123424000802

Herbig, L., Unan, A., Kuhn, T., Rodríguez, I., Rodon, T., & Klüver, H. (2025). Closed borders, closed minds? COVID-related border closures, EU support, and hostility towards immigrants, European Journal of Political Science. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6765.70025

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

Under review

Rodríguez, I. Legitimising prejudice? The impact of radical right party presence on anti-immigration attitude expression.

In progress

Rodríguez, I., Rodon, T., & Dickson, Z. A coordinated solution for a coordinated problem? A Civic Education experiment on climate change and attitudes towards the European Union.

Rodríguez, I. Digital battlegrounds: How political parties tailor advertising to electoral contexts.

Rodríguez, I. One seat ahead: The impact of narrow electoral wins on political parties’ digital ad strategy.

Workshops

I, II, III & IV COVIDEU Workshop: Project Workshop
- 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
- University of Amsterdam, UPF, London School of Economics, HU Berlin

Using AI for Text Analysis: Online course
Febrary 2025
- InStats
- Instructor: Seraphine Maerz
- Course certificate

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

Teaching

Universitat Pompeu Fabra (2022-2026)

Teaching Assistant

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

Instructor

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

Invited lecturer

  • Society and Politics in Contemporary Spain (Barcelona Program for Interdisciplinary Studies).

Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (2025-2026)

Adjunct lecturer (“professor col·laborador”)

  • Research design (BA in Political Science and Administration).
  • Data visualisation and analysis (BA in Political Science and Administration).
  • Electoral analysis and public opinion (BA in Political Science and Administration).

Universitat de Barcelona (2022)

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. Digital battlegrounds: How political parties tailor advertising to electoral contexts. [Working paper]

European Political Science Association, July 2024.
Presenting: Rodríguez, I., & Rodon, T. 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. Benchmarking pandemic response: How the UK’s Vaccine Rollout Impacted Popular support for the EU as part of the COVIDEU Project and Rodríguez, I. 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. Benchmarking pandemic response: How the UK’s Vaccine Rollout Impacted Popular support for the EU as part of the COVIDEU Project.

Awards and Honors

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

Skills/Languages

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












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