Structural inequalities have increased over the last five decades in most Western and global South societies. For my doctoral project, supervised by Bertjan Doosje, with Judit Kende and Michael Boiger as co-supervisors, I investigated whether and how advantaged group members contribute to widening inequalities by equalising individuals across groups (e.g., invoking tropes such as "I don't see colour/sexual orientation/class but people"). In examining how this emphasis on individuals over groups obscures intergroup inequality, I also investigated how advantaged group members can instead adopt a structural construal of inequality, enabling them to recognise their dominant position and promote substantive equality.

Before starting my PhD, I completed a B.A. in Psychology from Universidad Católica de Chile (2014), during which I participated in an academic exchange program at l'Institut d'études politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris (2012). After graduating, I completed an MSc in Social-Community Psychology (2019) at the same university. During my undergraduate studies, I conducted qualitative and theoretical research on the collective memory of the Chilean dictatorship (1973–1990) across generations and political leanings. For my MSc, I carried out a field experiment at the memorial site Londres 38 to examine whether and how visiting the memorial shaped the forgetting of justifications for the atrocities committed and strengthened visitors' democratic standpoint.