Diego Mo Groba

Diego Mo Groba serves as Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and Sociology at the University of Santiago de Compostela's Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, specializing in the psychological dimensions of political behavior with emphasis on electoral decision-making processes.

He earned his PhD from the University of Santiago de Compostela in 2021 with the dissertation Impact of emotions on the decision to vote: towards an emotional perspective of electoral behavior, supervised by Dra. Nieves Lagares Díez and Dr. Ramón Máiz Suarez.

Mo Groba's research program investigates how emotional responses shape political attitudes, particularly regarding far-right movements like VOX, nationalist sentiments, monarchical institutions, and aging populations' political engagement. His methodological approach integrates quantitative survey analysis with discourse examination across traditional and social media platforms, consistently contextualized within contemporary Spanish political dynamics.

Analysis of his 2021-2024 publications reveals three dominant trajectories: emotional voting mechanisms (especially regarding VOX), temporal dimensions in institutional evaluations (notably monarchy), and demographic intersections in political participation (including aging populations). His work demonstrates increasing methodological sophistication in measuring emotional variables while maintaining strong empirical grounding in Spanish electoral contexts.

As an active member of the Political Analysis research team, he contributes to collaborative projects examining political methodology and electoral systems, with emerging work exploring pandemic-related political fear and European cohesion policy implementation.