Talina is an Associate Professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She obtained a doctorate in International Economics and Development at the Complutense University of Madrid and the European Certificate of Advanced Studies in International Migration and Social Integration at the Ortega y Gasset University Research Institute. She has a degree in Economics from the Autonomous University of Zacatecas, Mexico.
Her fields of research include informal employment in Latin America, migration processes of Latin Americans and Africans to Spain, crisis and mundialisation of poverty, and, recently, the possibilities and implications of the energy transition. On these topics she has published various articles in Latin American magazines and in the Ministry of Employment and Social Security of the Government of Spain.
Her stay at LAC focuses on developing a postdoctoral project entitled “Crisis and Mundialisation of poverty. Universal Basic Income as an alternative for Latin America and Mexico.”