Since 2022: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the GIGA Institute of Latin American Studies; DFG-funded project Latin American Courts Going Public
2017 - 2022: Ph.D. in Political Science by the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Brazil
2018 - 2022: Doctoral Researcher at the GIGA Doctoral Programme, sponsored by the DAAD Bi-nationally Supervised Doctoral Degrees
2019-2020: Lecturer at the University of Hamburg
Since 2015: Associate at the DOXA Laboratory for Electoral Studies, Political Communication and Public Opinion, State University of Rio de Janeiro (IESP-UERJ)
Education: Ph.D. and M.A. in Political Science at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ); B.A. in Social Sciences at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ); Teaching Degree in Social Sciences at the University Candido Mendes
Current Research
Social policies
Poverty and welfare
Comparative political institutions
Legislative powers in Latin America
New democracies
Countries and Regions
Brazil
Mexico
Latin America
Dissertation
The Overlooked Role of the Brazilian Congress in Shaping the Bolsa Família Program: A New Approach to the Policy-making of Conditional Cash Transfers
