Natalia is a second year PhD student at University College Dublin, where she works under the supervision of Dr James Cross. She has a BA in International Studies by the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires and a Master's Degree in International Security by IBEI. Her PhD project consists of an interdisciplinary study of securitization on Twitter, which adds to the literature on inteernational security, big data, social media and quantitative text analysis. Her research interests also include topics such as migration and terrorism.