Lucía joined the University on a British Academy International Fellowship in 2024. Previously, Lucía was a British Academy Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and held post-doctoral positions at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at the University of Georgetown and the Faculty of Law at the University of Groningen.
She holds a Ph.D. in International Law from the University of Groningen, an MJur. from the University of Oxford, and an L.L.B. from the Universidad de la República in Uruguay. She also holds a post-graduate diploma in public policy design and a post-graduate diploma in women’s rights from Universidad Austral, Argentina.
In 2020, she was awarded the Rubicon grant by the Dutch Research Council (NOW) to undertake a two-year research project on sexual and reproductive rights. In 2019, she received a prize from the Dutch Network Women Professors (LNVH) under the Distinguished Women Scientists Fund. She has also obtained a British Academy Visiting Fellowship to the London School of Economics and an INSPIRE Grant from the European Union to develop part of her doctoral project at the Socio-Economic Right Project at the Dullah Omar Institute at the University of Western Cape in South Africa.
Lucía has previously worked with several grassroots organizations and has consulted for multilateral organizations including UNICEF, WHO, and the International Commission of Jurists.
Her academic work has been published in renowned peer-reviewed journals such as Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, Harvard Health and Human Rights, and BMC International Health and Human Rights.