Work

Work Experience

Quaest Pesquisa e Consultoria · Minas Gerais, BR

Data Scientist

Aug 2025 – present

Junior Data Analyst

Sep 2023 – Apr 2024

Data analysis for electoral and political projects; intelligence reports for media, companies, and politicians.

Social Accountability International · New York, US

Consultant (Assistant Researcher)

Jun 2024 – Aug 2025

Statistical and ML models for global living wage estimates; restructured models for sub-national and high-income countries.

Universidade Federal Fluminense · Rio de Janeiro, BR

Assistant Researcher

Mar 2024 – present

Developed Rio de Janeiro's 2024 Map of Armed Groups using NLP; produced reports on violence and educational inequalities for UNICEF and Instituto Fogo Cruzado.

United Nations

Junior KM Consultant · socialprotection.org

Feb 2025 – Aug 2025

Knowledge management and capacity building for the global social protection community platform.

Research Intern · UNDP

Oct 2022 – Apr 2023

Updated social protection database for Sub-Saharan Africa; reviewed M&E training materials for TRANSFORM project.

Research

Researcher

MAPE — Laboratório de Monitoramento e Avaliação de Políticas e Eleições

IESP-UERJ

Why do some governments invest more in health and education than others? Does re-electing incumbents make a difference in people's lives? MAPE produces scientific evidence to decisively intervene in public debates about the functioning of Brazilian democracy.

Researcher

CERES — Centro para o Estudo da Riqueza e Estratificação Social

IESP-UERJ

Research center focused on the systematic investigation of stratification, social mobility, inequalities, wealth, poverty, and the world of work in Brazil and comparative perspective.

CNPq · Institute of Democracy and Democratization of Communication

Industrial Technological Development Fellow

2024 – 2025

Awards & Distinctions

Distinctions

2025

1st Place — Prêmio de Teses e Dissertações do IESP-UERJ

with nomination to the Concurso Brasileiro ANPOCS de Obras Científicas e Teses Universitárias em Ciências Sociais

IESP-UERJ · ANPOCS

2024

1st place admission to the PhD program in Political Science

IESP-UERJ

2013

Bronze Medal — Olimpíada Brasileira de Matemática das Escolas Públicas (OBMEP)

CNPq

2012

Honorable Mention — Olimpíada Brasileira de Matemática das Escolas Públicas (OBMEP)

CNPq

Scholarships

2026

Graduate Scholarship — FAPERJ Nota 10 · Doutorado

Achieving the highest academic performance among the Class of 2024

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

2024

Global South Scholarship

University of Essex · Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis

2023

Graduate Scholarship — FAPERJ Nota 10 · Mestrado

Achieving the highest academic performance among the Class of 2022

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

2022

Graduate Scholarship — CAPES

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior

2020

Bolsa Estudante no Exterior

REARI-Utrecht · CEFET/RJ

2019–2020

Institutional Scientific Initiation Scholarship

CNPq

2018

Full Scholarship — Advanced Spanish Course (SET Idiomas, Argentina)

CEFET/RJ