For Alba, the tension between living in the present and planning for the future is deeply personal. After years of sacrificing present satisfaction for a potential career, constantly moving for work and studies, she made a bold choice: to move back home and study classical music with the sole goal of creating art for art’s sake.
Now, as a researcher at the EUI, Alba studies temporal horizons – how the value we place on the present and the future affects our decisions and life trajectories. Her work navigates largely uncharted territory in sociology, tackling the challenge of measuring something as abstract as our relationship with time.
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Alba Bosch I Bosch is a PhD researcher at the Department of Political and Social Sciences. Her thesis ‘The temporality of life trajectories.’ Is supervised by Prof. Arnout van de Rijt and co-supervised by Juho Härkönen.