Irene Molina is a lecturer at IBF, Uppsala University. Her special orientation is directed to issues related to power relations an social (in)equality in urban spaces. Ethnic and class spatial segregation, gender and place, and the intersections of class, race and gender in space are her current main areas of research.

The places in which this research is carried out, are mainly Sweden, Europe and Latin America, in particular Chile, where she obtained her title of Geographer in 1986 (Chile's Catholic University in Santiago). In her work, there is an increasing interest for the global scale.

Her doctoral dissertation, Stadens rasifiering - etnisk boendesegregation i folkhemmet (Racialization of the City - Ethnic Residential Segregation in the "House of the People") was published in 1997 at Uppsala University. At the same university, she obtained the title of Associate professor in 2002.