About
Urban data and policy specialist with 7+ years of experience at the intersection of urban governance, data analytics and innovation. Currently Data Officer in the Policy department at Metropolis, World Association of the Major Metropolises, leading Metro Futures, a global platform that helps 70+ cities benchmark their performance, compare policies and learn from their peers, with peer-learning labs on innovation and foresight run with city directors worldwide.
Data-driven policy work for the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center; contribution to the Barcelona Metropolitan Urban Master Plan (PDU). Faculty at IAAC, teaching urban data analysis in the Master in City and Technology and the Maestría en Urbanismos Próximos.
Work recognised by the New European Bauhaus, LINA - European architecture platform (25 emerging thinkers in architecture and urbanism in Europe, 2022), the Spanish Architecture and Urbanism Biennial (BEAU 2025), the Timișoara Architecture Biennial, the Kosovo Architecture Foundation, the Mostra di Architettura di Venezia, and MODEL and Barcelona Architecture Week.
XII Arquia Fellowship (2026) in New York, to research migrant neighbourhoods and urban integration as Visiting Scholar at Columbia University, in a project on Soluble Neighbourhood.
Awards and recognitions
- 2026XII Arquia Fellowship in New York, at Columbia University (Fundación Arquia and RABASF)
- 2025From Fog to River: one of the 40 best research projects in Spain (Spanish Architecture and Urbanism Biennial, XVII BEAU)
- 2024Beeodiversity (BCN Architecture Weeks)
- 2024Ideas for Prishtina competition: honorable mention for innovative design
- 2023Lido: Please Step on the Grass (Timișoara Architecture Biennial, European Capital of Culture 2023)
- 2023Park the Parking (Kosovo Architecture Foundation, Kosovo Architecture Festival)
- 2022Public Space as a Generator of Social Well-Being: New European Bauhaus selected work
- 2022LINA - European architecture platform fellow: 25 emerging thinkers in architecture and urbanism in Europe, conference in Ljubljana
- 2022Aigua Sana (MODEL. Architecture Festival of Barcelona)
- 2021Square it! (Barcelona Architecture Week)
- 2018Memory Crops (Biennale di Venezia, BECOMING)