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Doctor by the Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey with the thesis Risk-Taking Activism: Counter-Spaces Against Public Sexual Violence in Post-January 25 Egypt 2018. Supervised by Dr. Zakia Salime.

Susana Galán is a postdoctoral researcher at the Gender and ICT Research Group (Internet Interdisciplinary Institute – Universitat Oberta de Catalunya). She has a PhD in Women’s and Gender Studies from Rutgers University, a Master in European Studies from the Europa-Universität Viadrina and a BA in Journalism from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. She has been selected as a beneficiary of a Ramon y Cajal contract in the 2022 call. Her research adopts an intersectional, interdisciplinary, transnational and social justice approach that draws upon feminist and queer theory, affect theory, feminist media studies and feminist geography. Her work has been published in Signs: Journal of Women in Gender and Society, Gender, Place & Culture, the Journal of International Women’s Studies, the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, Kohl: A Journal for Body and Gender Research, the Observatori del Conflicte Social and the books Young People Shaping Democratic Politics (Palgrave), Freedom Without Permission: Bodies and Space in the Arab Revolutions (Duke University Press) and Beyond the Square: Urbanism and the Arab Uprisings (Terreform).  Between 2022 and 2024, she has coordinated the COST Action Platform Work Inclusion Living Lab (PWILL), of the European Cooperation in Science and Technology, and the project “Gender equality qualities of the platform economy. A framework of analysis,” funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. In the framework of the Barcelona UOC Chair in Digital Economy, she has participated in projects of knowledge transfer with the City Council of Barcelona and has organized the VIII Congress of Feminist Economy (Barcelona, March 16-18, 2023). She has served as co-editor for “Third Space” at the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies (2018-2021) and has co-edited special issues for Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society (2014) and Al-Raida (2020).