Silvia has recently joined the EUROMOD team. She works on the development of the model and conducts research and policy analysis on tax-benefit policy reforms of EU Member States. Before joining the JRC she was engaged in a UNU-WIDER project on modelling agricultural subsidies using the tax-benefit microsimulation model of Zambia.

She holds a MSc degree in Economic Development and Growth from the University Carlos III of Madrid and worked on relevant related research topics in the Lund University of Sweden.

Her main research interests are labour economics, agricultural production, policy evaluation, gender studies and econometrics.