I am a PhD student in Intercultural Studies working on decolonial pedagogy and interculturality in higher education. My research is grounded in a long-term collaboration with the Indigenous and intercultural university Universidad Intercultural de las Nacionalidades y Pueblos Indígenas Amawtay Wasi in Ecuador, where I examine how different knowledge systems interact within educational institutions shaped by colonial and global power relations.

My work focuses on the relational, often complex and contested spaces in which intercultural dialogue unfolds in higher education. Rather than aiming for resolution or consensus, the project attends to tensions, asymmetries, and moments of friction as constitutive elements of decolonial and intercultural educational practice.

Methodologically, the research engages with collaborative and participatory approaches and reflects critically on questions of ethics, reciprocity, and positionality in cross-cultural research contexts. Overall, the project seeks to contribute to discussions on how higher education can be reimagined through plural epistemologies, relational accountability, and more equitable forms of knowledge production.

Key research themes include:

• Decolonial pedagogy in higher education

• Critical interculturality

• Agonistic dialogue and productive conflict in education

• Ethics, reciprocity, and relational accountability in research

• Knowledge plurality and epistemic justice

I am part of several national and international research networks and environments engaged with decolonial, intercultural, and critical approaches to education and society. Internationally, I am a member of The Decolonial Critique Network, Pedagogies for Social Justice, and the Society of Latin American Studies, through which I engage with ongoing scholarly debates on coloniality, knowledge production, and higher education, particularly in relation to Latin America.

At Aarhus University, I am affiliated with the research programme Cultural Transformations and the research unit Entangled Colonialities Collective. Within the Entangled Colonialities Collective, I co-facilitate the reading group Reading Entangled Colonialities together with Gry Lind Merrild Hansen, fostering interdisciplinary dialogue across departments, disciplines, and methodological traditions.

I have presented my research in a range of academic settings in Denmark and internationally, including conferences, workshops, and seminars, with a particular emphasis on Latin America and intercultural higher education.

Central to my PhD project is an ongoing collaboration with Universidad Intercultural de las Nacionalidades y Pueblos Indígenas Amawtay Wasi in Ecuador. Through research stays, joint teaching activities, seminars, and continuous dialogue, this collaboration supports mutual knowledge exchange and contributes to the development of intercultural and decolonial perspectives on higher education, linking academic research with community-based and territorially grounded educational practices.