Matilde Massó
Associate Professor
Matilde Massó is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the Universidade da Coruña and, since November 2024, President of the Galician Association of Sociology. Her research focuses on economic sociology, with an emphasis on the transformations of money, the influence of morality on economic behavior, and financial exclusion processes.
She holds a degree in Sociology from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2001) and was awarded a predoctoral FPI grant linked to the QUIT/UAB center, where she actively participated in R&D&I projects funded through competitive public calls. In 2008, she obtained a PhD in Sociology from the UAB, receiving the Extraordinary Doctorate Award and the Prize from the Economic and Social Council of Catalonia for her dissertation.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, she was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie researcher (Individual Fellowships) at the Bauman Institute of the University of Leeds. Throughout her career, she has been involved in numerous National Plan projects, serving as Principal Investigator in four of them (calls from 2022, 2019, 2016, and 2013) and as a member of the applicant team in other projects.
She currently coordinates the G11 “Southern European Societies” group of the Spanish Federation of Sociology (FES), where she also serves as Vice President of Publications. Additionally, she is an active member of the RN09 Economic Sociology Network of the European Sociological Association (ESA).
In the academic field, Dr. Massó has published numerous articles in scientific journals indexed in databases such as JCR and Scopus. Furthermore, she has supervised five doctoral theses, all of them funded through predoctoral contracts. She has also completed a total of six research stays at foreign universities in Europe and Asia, three of them lasting one year or more at prestigious institutions such as Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi), ISEG-University of Lisbon, and the University of Leeds.