I am an associate professor at the Department of Logic, History and Philosophy of Science at UNED (the Spanish Open University), in Madrid. I studied Economics as an undergraduate and two Masters degrees: one in Advanced Social Sciences, at the Juan March Institute in Madrid, and another one in Philosophy of the Social Sciences and the LSE. I then completed my PhD at the European University Institute in Florence. 

I held a postdoctoral position at the Spanish National Research Council (IESA-CSIC) for a couple of years, where I worked in the field of Science Policy, both academically and doing applied research commissioned by several government agencies. At different times I have spent extended periods as visiting scholar at the NYU Politics department, the STS department at Cornell University, the PPE Program at UPenn, and last year at the Nuffield Center for Experimental Social Science at Oxford. 

My research interests revolve around the Philosophy of Economics and the Philosophy of the Social Sciences, with an emphasis on methodology. I am also interested in the philosophy of experimentation and of causal inference. I follow closely the work of social scientists and often work together with them and attend their conferences. My work has been published in the Journal of Economic Methodology, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, International Studies in Philosophy of Science, and Theoria. I have also published in interdisciplinary or social scientific journals, like Social Science & Medicine and the International Journal of Comparative Sociology.  

I have participated in various international and national research projects, both with philosophical, social scientific, and mixed research teams. I am currently the PI (together with Cristian Saborido, also from UNED) of MECABIOSOC, a research project that tries to link the study of mechanisms in biology and social sciences in relation to causal inference, financed by the Spanish Ministry of Science.