Ana Ballesteros-Pena is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow (UNA4CAREER-COFUND) at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) where she leads the GEIPP projectGender Equality and Intersectionality in prison policies: a multi-governed analysis). She is a member of ECRIM (University of A Coruña, Spain) and GEYPO (UCM, Spain) research groups. Previously, she was a Research Fellow of the Talent Attraction Program (Programa de Atracción de Talento/Com Madrid) at the Complutense University and the PI of the Project Governmigration on immigration detention in Spain and Canada under a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellowship at the University of A Coruña and the University of Toronto (Canada). Her main research lines include gender and punishment, prison policies, immigration detention and border control and gender equality policies. She holds a PhD in sociology from the University of Barcelona. Her PhD research examined female incarceration in the Spanish penitentiary system with specific focus on the analysis of prison policies implemented over the past decade. Recent publications can be found in Theoretical Criminology, European Journal of Politics and Gender, Punishment and Society, Women’s Studies International Forum and Critical Criminology.