About

I am Lecturer in Politics with Quantitative Research methods at the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies at the University of Bristol. I received my Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science at the University of California San Diego. During the 2019-20 academic year, I was a pre-doctoral fellow in the Department of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

I research political behaviour, particularly the association between ideological identification, attitudes, and voting. I am also interested in public opinion, political psychology, political cognition, experimental design, and causal inference. My work is forthcoming at the Journal of Politics.

My research has been funded by the Frontiers of Innovation Scholars Program at UCSD – a fellowship directed to research groups doing interdisciplinary work–, as well as by the Rita L. Atkinson fellowship – which funds one graduate student per year in the entire university doing work that integrates the social and natural sciences.

Prior to coming to UCSD, I got my M.A. in Social Sciences from The University of Chicago. I also worked for several years as a journalist in Brazil – first as a political reporter for  Estadão newspaper and then as a business reporter for Exame magazine.

I frequently publish op-eds in Brazilian media, including in the country’s largest newspaper, Folha de S. Paulo. I was an opinion columnist for the Brazilian magazine piauí during the 2018 Brazilian presidential election, where I wrote on the intersection between political science and political news.

Additionally, my political commentary has appeared at both international and Brazilian media, including at the Washington Times, Radio France Internationale, Globonews, among many others.

I am blind from birth. In addition to my academic work, I am also an activist for the rights of the LGBT+ and disabled communities.