Ainoa Aparicio-Fenoll is currently an Associate Professor at University of Turin. She is also an Affiliate at Collegio Carlo Alberto. She received her PhD in Economics in 2010 at Universitat Pompeu Fabra.

Her research interests lie in the fields of Labor, Education, Migration and Family Economics, Applied Econometrics. Up to now, she has worked on issues related to job quality, the implications of product market competition for the labor market, the economics of migration, group interactions and network effects, the economics of education, the implications of economic booms for education decisions, recessions and babies' health, the impact of education policies on migration flows, and language economics.

She joined IZA as a Research Affiliate in March 2010 and became an IZA Research Fellow in January 2013. Since 2022, she is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Population Economics.