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0000-0002-9862-0878

  ianina_tunon@uca.edu.ar

Sociologist, master's in social science research, and Ph.D. in Social Sciences from the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina). She is the coordinator and lead researcher of the Childhood Barometer within the framework of the Argentine Social Debt Observatory at the Universidad Católica Argentina. She is a recognized researcher by the Ministry of Education of Argentina. She teaches Social Research Methodology at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels at the Universidad Católica Argentina and the Universidad Nacional de la Matanza. She is the author of numerous publications in the field of childhood and youth sociology.

0000-0001-9486-2303

  nazarenabauso@uca.edu.ar

Doctoral Fellow (co-funded UCA-CONICET) at the Argentine Social Debt Observatory (ODSA-UCA) since August 2024. She is Assistant University Lecturer at the Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina, teaching Comparative Politics, Social Research Methodology and Ethics.She holds a Bachelor's degree in Political Science and International Relations from UCA and specialises in access to water and sanitation, water insecurity, multidimensional poverty and structural deprivations in Argentina. Her doctoral thesis focuses on deprivations in access to safe water and sanitation in Argentine childhood (2010-2023). She has published on environmental deprivations and risks in Argentine urban households and contributes to ODSA reports on structural poverty, with emphasis on the NOA and NEA regions.

0009-0009-3150-8337

  miranda_correa@uca.edu.ar

Political Scientist from the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) and Master's student in Public Policies at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (UTDT). She is Technical Advisor at the Argentine Social Debt Observatory (ODSA-UCA) since August 2024, where she provides political and communication advisory to the Observatory's Direction, manages research projects and international academic networks, coordinates teams and produces scientific dissemination events.

She was previously Adscript Researcher (June 2022 - July 2024) and Teaching Assistant at ODSA-UCA, where she carried out quantitative research, production of scientific articles, statistical documents and research notes. She is Assistant Lecturer in Social Research Methodology at the Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina since February 2026. Her research lines include poverty, urban inequality, ecological crisis, democracy and public policies in Latin America.

0000-0002-1100-2592

  fernando_gallegos@uca.edu.ar

Bachelor's degree in Sociology, Technical Fellow at the Argentine Social Debt Observatory (ODSA-UCA) since August 2024. He is a research assistant in the area of poverty, population and employment at ODSA.

His research lines include demography, statistics and applied social research. He has co-authored work on changes in income undercoverage in the Permanent Household Survey (EPH) between 2017-2024, together with Alejo Giannecchini, under the supervision of Dr. Agustín Salvia. He contributes to the preparation of ODSA technical reports on poverty, labour markets and living conditions in Argentina.

0009-0003-4916-9763

  algiannecchini@uca.edu.ar

Bachelor's degree in Sociology from the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA), Technical Fellow at the Argentine Social Debt Observatory (ODSA-UCA) since March 2025. He works in the area of poverty, labour market and population, carrying out quantitative research, statistics and methodological innovations.

His research lines include monetary poverty and inequality, labour market, employment precariousness, adjustment policies and economic stabilisation in Argentina.

0009-0005-1532-2859

  valentina_gonzalez@uca.edu.ar

Bachelor's degree in Political Science from the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA). She is Technical Advisor for the Barometer of the Social Debt of Childhood at the Argentine Social Debt Observatory (ODSA-UCA) since December 2024. She was previously Assistant for Quantitative Projects and First-Level Teaching Assistant in Public Opinion Analysis Methodology at UBA. She is Assistant Lecturer in Quantitative Methods at the Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina since March 2025.

Her research lines include child food insecurity, social protection, children's and adolescents' rights, and public policy analysis in Argentina. She has presented reports on food insecurity in Argentine childhood (2024), where more than 4.3 million children and adolescents experienced some form of food insecurity.

0000-0002-3006-713X

  carolina_martinez@uca.edu.ar

Bachelor's degree and PhD candidate in Psychology from the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA), Doctoral Fellow UCA-CONICET at the Argentine Social Debt Observatory (ODSA-UCA). She is a researcher at the Barometer of the Social Debt of Childhood at ODSA since March 2019. She is a lecturer in Quantitative Methodology in the Bachelor's programmes in International Relations and Political Science at the Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina. Her research lines include children's rights, right to education, child labour from a gender perspective, multidimensional child poverty and educational trajectories. She has presented papers on child labour and labour precariousness, and on inequalities in the right to education in Argentina.

0000-0002-9557-532X

  agustinapaterno@uca.edu.ar

PhD in Psychology from the Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina (UCA), Postdoctoral Research Fellow UCA-CONICET at the Argentine Social Debt Observatory (ODSA-UCA) since August 2026. She was previously a CONICET Doctoral Fellow at ODSA (April 2020 - July 2026) and Research Intern (May 2018 - March 2020).

Her area of expertise is in the Psychology of Wellbeing and Health, aiming to expand empirical evidence on problematic psychoactive substance use in Argentina, specifically alcohol. Her postdoctoral thesis focuses on an explanatory model of alcohol and marijuana consumption contexts among adults in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires using latent class analysis (LCA) and structural equation modelling (SEM).

She is Assistant Professor of Research Methodology (Occupational Therapy) and of Comprehensive Approach to Addictive Behaviours at the Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina since March 2026, and Professor in the Master's in Applied Neuropsychology.

  eduardo_donza@uca.edu.ar

Sociologist from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), holds a Master’s degree in Generation and Analysis of Statistical Information from Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero (UNTREF), and is a PhD candidate in Sociology at Universidad Católica Argentina (UCA). He is a researcher at the Argentine Social Debt Observatory (Observatorio de la Deuda Social Argentina) at UCA and at the University of Buenos Aires, focusing on labour markets, social stratification, poverty and income inequality.

He has taught in the Master’s programme in Statistical Information (UNTREF) and in undergraduate and graduate courses on quantitative methods, applied statistics and labour market analysis. His research and publications examine labour precariousness, the urban popular economy, employment quality, informality, poverty and social vulnerability in contemporary Argentina.

0000-0003-2545-8483

  solange_respinola@uca.edu.ar

PhD in Psychology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina (UCA). Researcher at the Argentine Social Debt Observatory (UCA) and Coordinator of the Human Capital and Well-Being Area. She specializes in health, well-being, human development, and social inequalities. She conducts applied research aimed at generating evidence for the design and evaluation of public policies, with experience in population studies, social indicators, and the analysis of psychosocial, socioeconomic, and labor-related factors associated with substance use, subjective well-being, and health among adults, with a focus on comparisons across life stages and by gender.

She has an academic and scientific career spanning more than two decades, reflected in extensive publications in national and international specialized journals, as well as chapters in academic books on health, psychosocial resources, aging, poverty, subjective well-being, and human development. She has more than 50 scientific publications dating from at least 2000 to 2026, including books, book chapters, and articles in internationally indexed journals.

She has an outstanding record in training researchers, having supervised or co-supervised more than 70 researchers through doctoral theses, master’s final projects, and a large number of undergraduate dissertations and final degree projects at various Argentine universities.

In the field of scientific training, she has supervised or co-supervised at least seven research and doctoral fellows funded by UCA and CONICET, in addition to supervising interns and researchers in training involved in research projects on well-being, health, aging, and problematic substance use. She teaches at the undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral levels, serves on editorial and scientific committees, and regularly evaluates doctoral and master’s theses and research projects at Argentine universities.

0000-0002-3010-5140

  julieta_vera@uca.edu.ar

Researcher at the Argentine Social Debt Observatory (ODSA) of the Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina (UCA). She specialises in labour markets, poverty and inequality.

She has contributed to research documents on social policy and its effects on poverty and inequality under different socioeconomic regimes in Argentina (1992-2012), together with Dr. Agustín Salvia and Santiago Poy. She is part of the team that produces analyses of indigence and income poverty rates in Argentina, including technical reports and public presentations on the evolution of poverty and material living conditions.