Welcome!

I am a Researcher at the @Twitter Civic Integrity and Misinformation Team. In the Summer 2022, I will be starting as a postdoctoral scholar at the Center for Social Media and Politics at NYU and in Fall 2023, I will join the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University as an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science.

I study computational social science and comparative political behavior. My computational social science work focuses substantively on political communication and methodologically on network models to deal with big data, novel image-based experimental designs, and social science applications for natural language processing. My comparative political behavior work explores issues of criminal violence, inequality and preferences for harsh-on-crime policies in Latin America.

I am currently working on a book project with Natalia Aruguete and Ernesto Calvo titled News Sharing, Content Activation and Perceptions of Polarization on Social Media. Our work combines computational modeling with social media data, several survey digital experiments and qualitative analysis across four different countries, Brazil, Argentina, United States and Mexico. The book project is a follow-up from our article “News by Popular Demand” recently published at the International Journal of Press/Politics.

My research has been published at the Journal of Communication, International Journal of Press/Politics, Electoral Studies, Digital Journalism, Journal of Elections Public Opinion and Parties, Latin American Politics and Society, The Journal of Quantitative Description (Digital Media), and The SAGE Handbook of Research Methods in Political Science and International Relations. In addition, my projects have been funded through grants and fellowships from the University of Maryland, Russel Sage Foundation, EGAP, the Inter-American Development Bank, and CAPES (Brazilian Government).

I earned a Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Maryland College Park (2022), a Master’s and a Ph.D. degree in Political Science from the State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. I am a proud native of the North of Brazil, from the city of Belém. But, before moving to the United States, I developed some affection for the beautiful city of Rio de Janeiro.