Javier Martínez Escobar is a research technician at the Center for Human and Social Sciences, Spanish National Research Council (CCHS-CSIC). He works in the department of information processing, specialized in qualitative analysis in social and human sciences. He holds a BA in Sociology at Carlos III University of Madrid, a Master's degree in Sociocultural Research at Complutense University of Madrid, and a Master's degree in Teacher Training from the same university. He has worked as a qualitative researcher in market research. He also completed a year of the bachelor’s degree at the University of Bath (United Kingdom). His areas of interest include the sociology of social change, social stratification, discrimination in contemporary societies, and urban sociology.