Hugo has recently joined the EUROMOD team. He obtained his PhD from the University of Vigo in 2021, and has done research stays and visits at Johns Hopkins University and the Luxembourg Income Study. Before joining the JRC Hugo worked as slackline instructor, taught at a high school in Berlin, performed financial accounting at the City Council of Vilagarcía de Arousa, and was a researcher and teacher at the University of Vigo. His interests include distributive justice, inequality, poverty, data analysis, and coding.