I am a Brazilian social scientist and postdoctoral fellow at the University of Konstanz. I study how legal institutions shape the politics of organized representation and its consequences for democratic governance. I am interested in both how states structure access for organized groups and how those groups mobilize to secure, expand, or defend their participation in policymaking and implementation. Drawing on public law, political sociology, and comparative politics, my recent work explains why some participatory arrangements become institutionalized in new democracies while others do not. A second line of research bridges social-scientific and legal scholarship on how institutions are conceptualized and studied. I am a co-organizer of the Law and Political Economy collaborative research network at the Law and Society Association. 

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 Group. During my doctoral studies, I was a Democracy Visiting Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation.