I am a Brazilian social scientist currently working as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Konstanz. My work examines how institutions shape and are shaped by the interactions between state and society. I am particularly interested in the dynamics of participatory democracy - how groups engage with policymaking and implementation, and how administrations respond to these forms of participation. My recent work has explored the legacy of corporatist policymaking in new democracies, participation in local health policies, and the judicialization of participation. I also engage with conceptual and methodological questions about how social scientists and legal theorists think about institutions. My research sits at the crossroads of socio-legal studies, comparative politics, and political sociology.

At the University of Konstanz, I have been associated with the Zukunftskolleg, the Department of Sociology, and the Cluster of Excellence “The Politics of Inequality” since May 2024. I was previously a postdoctoral fellow at the FGV São Paulo Law School’s Center for Law and Political Economy. I studied law at the University of São Paulo (Ph.D., 2022; B.A., 2016), where I was associated with the Law and Policy Research Group. During my doctoral studies, I was a visiting fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation.