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appointments, education, publications, and invited talks

Current Position

Assistant Professor, Comparative Politics
Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
(October 2023-present)

Previous Appointments

  • Postdoctoral researcher, IDHEAP, University of Lausanne (May 2021-September 2023)
  • Lecturer, Institute of Political Science, Leiden University (February 2020-May 2021)
  • Visiting scholar, Department of Political Science, University of Amsterdam (September 2017-September 2019)

Education

  • PhD in Political Science, University of Geneva (March 2020)
    Dissertation: Who Deserves Welfare? The Populist Radical Right’s Transformation of Social Policy
  • MSc in Government and Public Administration, Getulio Vargas Foundation (May 2013)
  • BSc in Economics, University of Sao Paulo (June 2009)
  • BSc in International Relations, Pontifical Catholic University of Sao Paulo (February 2009)

Selected Invited Talks

  • 2026 - The Politics of AI: Citizen Perceptions, Preferences, and Priorities, Nuffield College, Oxford
  • 2025 - Self-Interest, Solidarity, and Consumer Choice in the Platform Economy, PPRNet Annual Meeting, Humboldt University Berlin
  • 2024 - Evaluating the Political Power of Platform Companies, Political Economy and Public Policy Talk, Leiden University
  • 2024 - Radical right-wing populism and the welfare state in Europe, University of Sao Paulo
  • 2023 - Right-Wing Populist Parties and the Welfare State, EZA Brussels Conference

Languages

Portuguese (native), English (fluent), French (intermediate)