I am a Brazilian social scientist working as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Konstanz. My work generally revolves around State-society relations and participatory democracy. Some of my research topics have included the persistence (or not) of corporatist policymaking in new democracies, local participation in healthcare policies, and participatory bodies under autocratic pressure. I am also interested in conceptual and methodological issues surrounding institutional thinking in the social sciences and its relation to legal theory. My work spans the disciplines 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 (B.A., 2016; Ph.D., 2022), 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.