I am Associate Professor in Applied Linguistics at the Department of Culture, Communication and Media in UCL Institute of Education (UK). I received my PhD. in Socio- and Applied Linguistics from the Autonomous University of Madrid (Spain), followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at King’s College London (2010-2011) and The University of Hong Kong (2011-2012). I have worked as Assistant Professor at The University of Hong Kong (2012-2015) where I have also been appointed Honorary Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education (2016-2017).

My research on language ideology, social interaction and institutions has been published in the form of an authored book in Routledge Critical Series in Multilingualism (2013). Other work has been published in international journals within the fields of socio and applied linguistics such as Journal of Language, Identity and Education (2011), Pragmatics (2011), Linguistics and Education (2012), Spanish in Context (2012), International Journal of Multilingualism (2014), Pedagogies: An International Journal (2015), Language Policy (2015), AILA Review (2016) or Language and Intercultural Communication (2018).

I have edited Special Issues in International Journal of Multilingualism (2014), Language Policy (2015) and AILA Review (2016), as well as the Oxford Handbook of Language Policy and Planning (2018) in co-editorship with James W. Tollefson. My latest editing-related adventure includes Language, Culture and Society (John Benjamins), a new international journal to be launched in 2019 for which I act as Managing Editor.