Laurencia Sáenz Benavides is a Marie-Skłodowska Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Bologna (2024-2026). Her research project examines The Emotional Aspects of Resistance and Solidarity (TEARS).

She received her Ph.D. in Philosophy from Birkbeck College, University of London, in July 2019.

She works on moral and political philosophy, feminist philosophy, critical philosophy of race, and philosophy of emotions.

She is the author of the book Instrumentos de Poder. El rol de las emociones en la opresión (2021, EUNED-Editorial Costa Rica).