Welcome!

I am a PhD Candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of São Paulo (DCP/USP), where I am advised by Prof. Rogério Bastos Arantes and supported by a doctoral fellowship from the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP). I hold a Master's degree in Political Science from USP (2024), a law degree from the USP School of Law (2025), and a B.A. in Economics from FEA-USP (2018), where I was a FAPESP undergraduate research fellow.

My doctoral dissertation examines party-switching in comparative perspective, investigating how legislators and parties compete over political resources to attract and retain legislative talent, and how anti-defection rules shape that competition. I am also engaged in ongoing work on agenda power and government coalition management in the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies, and on electoral coalition strategies in multiparty presidential systems.

I am a member of the JUDE – Judiciário e Democracia research group at USP, and I coordinate CLIP, a research group on legislative behavior and comparative political institutions. I also serve on the editorial board of Leviathan (São Paulo). My work has been presented at ANPOCS, ABCP, IPSA, and MPSA, and published in Estudos Econômicos, among other venues.

My academic interests include: party politics and party organization, legislative behavior, anti-defection rules, judicial politics, electoral governance, and coalitional presidentialism.