I’m a tenure-track assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science at Aalborg University in Copenhagen. My main research studies how communication technologies, especially messaging apps, affect interpersonal relationships. I conduct empirical studies to understand how people adapt software to fit their communication needs and build prototypes that explore ways of providing them with richer control over their expression and relationship maintenance. I’m currently studying interoperability between messaging apps and exploring alternative software models to “apps” for online communication.

Previously, I was a post-doc researcher at the Department of Computer Science at Aarhus University, working with Susanne Bødker in the Collaboration & Computer-Human Interaction (CoCHI) team, as well as in the Department of Digital Design and Information Studies in Aarhus University with Clemens Klokmose. I also worked at the IIS Lab in The University of Tokyo with Koji Yatani. My defended my Ph.D. thesis “Designing for Ecosystems of Communication Apps” in 2018, which I did at Université Paris-Saclay and Inria under the supervision of Wendy Mackay. I’m an EIT Digital alumni from the Human-Computer Interaction and Design Master Program in Université Paris-Saclay and KTH. Before specializing on HCI, I studied Information Systems Engineering in Universidad Tecnológica Nacional in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Latest news:

• January 2026: I joined the SIGCHI Executive Committee as VP for Operations. I’m excited and honored to take on this role and will be forming a new Operations team soon. Happy to hear any suggestions regarding the systems and infrastructure that helps run SIGHCI conferences.

• January 2026: Tom Biselli joins me as a postdoc to work on projects related to privacy, safety and interoperability in messaging platforms. Welcome Tom!

• October 2025: I presented two talks at the Matrix Conference 2025: In one talk, I explore how the privacy framework of Contextual Integrity may point to challenges in negotiating values of privacy and safety in interoperable messaging. In the second talk, I present our just accepted paper to PETS 2026, discussing messaging app users’ perceptions of untraceability.

• September 2025: Paper accepted to PETS 2026! “User Perceptions and Attitudes Toward Untraceability in Messaging Platforms” with Boel Nelson, Zefan Sramek, Aslan Askarov.

• August 2025: Welcome Stina Olsson to the mInt team! Stina is starting her PhD to investigate challenges of self-presentation in interoperable messaging and its impact on network effects.

• May 2025: Welcome Xinyuan Liu to the team! Xinyuan is joining me as a PhD student to research peer support groups in social media. He’s also partially contributing to the mInt project, focusing on boundary management in interoperable messaging.

• December 2024: The Independent Research Fund (DFF) awarded me with an Inge Lehmann starting grant for the project: mInt: Human-centered design principles for effective management of social boundaries in interoperable text messaging platforms. I’m so excited to start forming a research team to explore interaction design and privacy issues surrounding messaging interoperability. The project starts in February 2025.

• October 2024: I’m starting to co-supervise my first PhD student, Antoine Nollet, in collaboration with Bruno Fruchard and Sylvain Malacria from the Loki team at Inria, Lille. Let the adventure begin!

• October 2024: I am giving a talk at the inaugural Matrix conference in Berlin, Germany, titled “The Walled Garden Dilemma: Privacy vs. App Choice in Messaging Ecosystems”. The talk gives an overview of my research on ecosystems of messaging apps and its implications for messaging interoperability.

• July 2024: I am teaching a course on UI evaluation methods at the ECI winter school organized by the University of Buenos Aires (UBA): see details here.