I am an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Higher School of Economics (HSE University) and a Research Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science‘s International Inequalities Institute. I received a Ph.D. in Political Science and a M.S. in Statistics from the University of California, Los Angeles. Prior to joining the LSE in January 2021, I held the posts of Lecturer in Quantitative Social Science at Cardiff University in 2020-21 and of Postdoctoral Researcher at Sciences Po Paris in 2018-19. I received an M.A. in Political Science and a B.Sc. in Social Sciences, both from the Federal University of Minas Gerais.

My current research has examined varied facets of the polycrisis and its political, social, psychological,
and health consequences. Leveraging my training in political and social psychology, public opinion, comparative political behaviour, policy analysis, social research methods and computational social science, my research has focused on individual- and contextual-level determinants of support for the far-right, policy preferences, identity formation and ethnoracial tensions, political inequalities, and health outcomes. Methodologically, I am interested in multivariate statistics, latent variable modelling, survey methodology, cross-national survey data analysis, survey experiments, and measurement issues in comparative research using observational and experimental data.

I am the Principal Investigator in collaborative policy analysis projects that have generated some £200,000 in grant income. One ongoing project on healthcare policy in Tanzania, in partnership with Wezesha, has been awarded the 100x Impact Accelerator’s Social Venture Partnership Stream Research Grant. I am also the PI in a project on social media usage, food consumption, and non-communicable diseases in Kuwait in collaboration with Dr Abrar Al-Hasan, and we were awarded the Kuwait Academic Collaborations grant by the LSE Kuwait Programme. 

As an instructor, I am committed to inclusive education and have taught contemporary political issues and numeracy to practitioners and non-specialists. I taught in the Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity programme and in the LSE MSc Inequalities and Social Science from 2021-2024, where I contributed to curriculum development, supervised Master’s students, provided pastoral care and offered training in social research methods. Since 2023 I have been working on a pedagogic research project on the decolonisation of quantitative methods for social science students and social activists with generous support from the LSE Eden Centre’s Eden Development Fellow, which has now become a collaborative network of scholars across the UK, and I co-organise the Decolonizing Theory and Methods Teaching in the Political and Social Sciences Research Group Workshop at the 2025 APSA Virtual Research Meeting. In August 2023, I was awarded the status of Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. I previously taught quantitative research methods and political science at Cardiff University, UCLA, and the Federal University of Minas Gerais.

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