I am a sociologist and feminist social scientist specializing in cultural sociology, feminist theory, and the sociology of inequalities. My research is driven by a commitment to decolonizing the social sciences—rethinking how knowledge is produced, valued, and legitimized across diverse contexts and traditions.

From 2022 to 2024, I held a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna, where I led the project Understanding the Role of Diversity in European Research (URDER). This project examined how European research policy and funding institutions define and operationalize “diversity” and “excellence.” Drawing on in-depth interviews with European Research Council experts and policy analysis, I investigated how hierarchies of value are constructed and institutionalized in European academia.

In 2024–2025, I was a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Sociology at Columbia University and a member of the Trust Collaboratory.

I earned my Ph.D. in Sociology from Masaryk University in the Czech Republic, where my research focused on feminist sociology and postcolonial studies. During my doctoral training, I was also a Ph.D. fellow at the University of Vienna, the University of Graz, and the University of Toronto—experiences that broadened my transnational academic perspective. At Masaryk, I directed the Postcolonial Studies Working Group (2015–2021) and contributed to the Gender Match project.

Across these experiences, my scholarship investigates how social hierarchies of knowledge are produced, contested, and reproduced in academic institutions, policy frameworks, and everyday knowledge practices.