I am a Brazilian social scientist and postdoctoral fellow at the University of Konstanz (Germany). I study how the terms of state-society relations in policymaking and implementation are set and renegotiated. Drawing on public law, comparative politics, and political sociology, I examine how institutions shape organized groups’ access to the state, how groups mobilize to secure, expand, or defend that access, and what these dynamics mean for democratic governance. 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.