My academic and professional background is grounded in Educational Psychology, with a specific focus on identity development, multidimensional self-concept, and psychosocial adjustment in educational contexts. This trajectory is enriched by an extensive artistic career in the performing arts and long-standing engagement in international volunteering and social intervention. Together, these experiences allow me to approach identity not as a static psychological construct, but as a dynamic, embodied, relational, and culturally situated process. This integrative perspective aligns closely with interdisciplinary research on identity, development, inclusion, and human diversity within complex social systems.

1. Identity development, self-concept, and psychosocial adjustment in educational contexts

I contribute to the analysis of identity formation in childhood and adolescence through the lens of multidimensional self-concept and psychosocial adjustment. My research examines how cognitive, emotional, social, and contextual factors interact in the construction of identity, and how educational environments function as key spaces for either reinforcing or transforming self-perception, belonging, and agency.

2. Embodied and artistic dimensions of identity construction

My profile brings a strong arts-based and embodied perspective to identity research. With more than two decades of professional experience in dance, theatre, circus, and movement arts, I explore identity as something performed, expressed, and experienced through the body. This background enables me to contribute to innovative, arts-informed methodologies that use creativity, movement, and narrative as tools for identity exploration, emotional development, and inclusive educational practice.

3. Identity, social engagement, and intercultural experience

I also contribute a strong intercultural and socially engaged perspective based on long-term international volunteering and community-based work in diverse contexts across Europe, Asia, and the Americas. These experiences provide a grounded understanding of identity as shaped by mobility, cultural diversity, vulnerability, solidarity, and social transformation. This allows me to contribute to analyses of inclusion, belonging, and identity negotiation in multicultural and socioeconomically diverse environments.

4. Interdisciplinary research, methodology, and applied impact

My contribution integrates educational psychology, qualitative and quantitative research methods, and arts-based intervention design. I have experience in psychometric validation and data analysis, as well as in the development of applied educational resources and intervention tools. This combination allows me to bridge rigorous empirical research with innovative, practice-oriented approaches that enhance both scientific understanding and real-world impact.

My participation aims to strengthen the project’s conceptualization of identity as a multidimensional, embodied, and socio-culturally constructed phenomenon, contributing to innovative methodological approaches and applied frameworks that connect psychological science, arts-based research, and social and educational transformation.