Investigador contratado (POP), fondo USAL- Banco Santander
Espacio ACPA, Planta Jardín
Tfno: 923 29 44 00 - Ext. 3510
Fax 923 29 45 16
Email: asanchezgarcia@usal.es

He holds a PhD in Comparative Politics from the Area of Political Science and Administration at the University of Salamanca. Previously, he studied for a Master’s Degree in Political and Electoral Analysis at the Juan March Foundation (UC3M) and a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science and Public Administration at the University of Salamanca. He has been a visiting researcher at the University College Dublin (UCD) School of Politics and International Relations (SPIRe), Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, and Instituto de Ciências Sociais (ICS) da Universidade de Lisboa.

Currently, Álvaro is a member of the research projects “Geography, Polarization and the Rural-Urban Divide in the XXI Century” (UPF) and “Feelings Of left behindness, electoRal behavior, and chanGes in pOliTical compeTition in European couNtries (FORGOTTEN)” (USAL) both funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation of the Government of Spain. I was also a member of the project “Populism, Policy Preferences and Political Representation” (USAL).

Research lines: political geography, populist radical parties, economic geography and rural-urban studies.

Academic profiles:

-       Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Isd6jJ4AAAAJ&hl=es

-       ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alvaro-Sanchez-Garcia-2

-       Web: https://www.asanchezgarcia.es