A lecturer in Constitutional Law and Political Science at the University of Barcelona, her field of research is governmental trends in metropolitan areas. She has worked as a researcher at the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique of Montreal and the Institut de Ciències Polítiques i Socials (Institute of Political and Social Sciences) in Barcelona. She has carried out studies for a number of public organisms, including the Barcelona County Council, the European Spatial Planning Observation Network and the Canadian Ministry for Municipal Affairs. She has recently published La governabilitat metropolitana a Europa i l’Amèrica del Nord (Metropolitan Governability in Europe and the United Status – Diputació de Barcelona, 2009).CÈNCIA