Ph.D. Student in Political Science (2022-Present)
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.
Thesis Project
Title: “Crisis, Competition, and Campaigning: Citizens and Parties
in 21st Century Politics”.
Supervisor: Dr. Toni Rodon.
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 Research, 64(4), pp.1923-1944. 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
Rodríguez, I. Legitimising prejudice? The impact of radical right party presence on anti-immigration attitude expression.
Rodríguez, I., Rodon, T., & Dickson, Z. A coordinated solution for a coordination 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.
COVIDEU Project
- VolkswagenStiftung Research
Project
- Role: PhD Researcher
- Duration: 2022-2025
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Principal Investigators: Dr. Heike Klüver (HU Berlin), Dr. Toni Rodon
(UPF), Dr. Theresa Kuhn (LSE), Dr. Michal Krawczyk
- Website: www.covideu.info
Unraveling reference points in the evaluation of regional
governance indicators
- Institut d’Estudis d’Autogovern
- Role: PhD Researcher
- Duration: 2026-2027
- Principal
Investigator: Dr. Jordi Mas (UOC)
Rodríguez, I. (2025). Institutional Report on the `Sóc
Diputat / Sóc Diputada’ Workshop (Parliament of Catalunya).
- Mixed-methods text analysis of students’ policy proposals for the
Parliament of Catalonia (programme “Soc diputat/da”), combining
qualitative coding and statistical textual analysis to identify thematic
patterns, ideological dimensions, and differences across educational and
social groups.
Rodon, T., & Rodríguez, I. (2023, October 1). Quants vots ha perdut l’independentisme des de l’1-O? Ara. Retrieved from https://www.ara.cat/politica/quants-vots-perdut-l-independentisme-des-l-1_1_4815730.html
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
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Course
certificate
RECSM Summer Methods School: Big Data:
Computational Analysis of Text
- July 2022
- Universitat
Pompeu Fabra
- Instructor: Carlos Arcila (Universidad de Salamanca)
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Course
certificate
RECSM Summer Methods School: Multilevel I:
Introduction to Multilevel Models
- July 2022
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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)
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Course
certificate
Research Stay at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- Dynamics Research Training Group (RTG)
- Under the supervision of
Dr. Heike Klüver
- October–December 2025
Dynamics Research Training Group Seminar,
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- November 2025
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Presented: One seat ahead: The impact of narrow electoral wins on
political parties’ digital ad strategy.
Barcelona Program for Interdisciplinary Studies, Universitat
Pompeu Fabra
- January 2025
- Society and
Politics in Contemporary Spain: the digital advertising strategies of
political parties.
Universitat de l’Experiència, Universitat de
Barcelona
- November 2021
- Seminar on voter
behavior and radical right parties.
Universitat Pompeu Fabra (2022-2026)
Teaching Assistant
Instructor
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (2025-2026)
Adjunct lecturer (“professor col·laborador”)
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.
Beca Santander | Ayuda Económica Para Personal Investigador
Predoctoral 2025 (Santander Grant | Financial Aid for Pre-Doctoral
Researchers 2025)
- Banco Santander
- €2,000
PhD Programme in Political and Social Sciences Doctoral
Workshop - Best Poster Award
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra
- 2nd place
- Check out my
poster
Postgraduate Degree in Data Analysis (2021-2022)
Universitat de Barcelona (Spain).
MSc in Political Analysis and Institutional
Assessment (2020-2021)
Universitat de 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 (Spain).
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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