Associate Professor at the Institute of Legal Research at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and Departmental Lecturer in Criminology at the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford, where she coordinates the project Border Militarisation in Transit Countries: A Global South–Global East Perspective. From 2023 to 2025, she was a Visiting Fellow at Warwick Law School, where she launched the project The Effects of Border Militarisation in Mexico and Poland on the International Protection and Human Rights of Migrants. In 2021, she received UNAM's National University Distinction Award for Young Scholars in the field of Social Science Research. She is also Affiliate Faculty at the University of Arizona, where she teaches in the M.A. Program in Human Rights Practice. She is a member of the Border Criminologies Network at the University of Oxford, the Borders, Race, Ethnicity and Migration (BREM) Network at the University of Warwick, and the Comparative Analysis on International Migration and Displacement in the Americas Network (CAMINAR). She also serves on the Editorial Committee of the journals Feminist Legal Studies and Revista Interdisciplinaria de Estudios de Género de El Colegio de México. Her research focuses on gender and migration, immigration detention, bureaucracies, state violence, gender-based violence, and women’s autonomy.