Candela Villalonga Zalazar is a PhD Candidate in Social Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires (UBACYT) and currently a Visiting Research Fellow at the CRC Affective Societies at Freie Universität Berlin. Her doctoral research develops a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the structural barriers and inequalities shaping women’s participation in STEM fields, with a particular focus on argentinean organizations that seek to support and advance women in technology. Her work examines how these organizations identify, navigate, and respond to the obstacles women encounter in highly masculinized environments, paying attention to the tools, strategies, and forms of collective action they deploy. Engaging feminist epistemologies, she analyzes how knowledge, power, and exclusion are configured within digital and technological contexts in the global majority.

Situated at the intersection of gender, technology, and affect, her research also explores how emotions and affective dynamics shape both anti-feminist discourses and feminist responses, contributing to broader debates on epistemic justice, the politics of knowledge, and the production of technological imaginaries.

Research Interests

• Feminist epistemologies and epistemic justice
• Gender and technology
• Affect theory and political emotions
• Anti-feminist discourses
• Digital cultures and inequalities