I am a Brazilian social scientist and postdoctoral fellow at the University of Konstanz. My research examines how institutions mediate interactions between state and society, with a focus on participatory governance and the ways organized groups engage with policymaking and implementation. I study how public administrations respond to demands for inclusion and how these dynamics evolve over time. My recent work explores the legacy of corporatist policymaking in new democracies, participation in local health governance, and judicial behavior in politically polarized contexts. I also engage with conceptual and methodological debates on how institutions are theorized across social science and legal scholarship. My work sits at the intersection of public law, comparative politics, and political sociology. I am a co-organizer of the Law and Political Economy 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 Research Group. During my doctoral studies, I was a Democracy Visiting Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation.