I am an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy and a faculty affiliated with the Massive Data Institute. Before joining Georgetown, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at NYU’s Center for Social Media and Politics, where I remain a Faculty Research Affiliate. Previously, I received my Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Maryland, College Park, and worked as a Misinformation Researcher at @Twitter.
My research deals with substantive issues on politics and social media, focusing on topics such as content activation and propagation, misinformation, and polarization on social media platforms. I am mostly interested in pursuing a comparative approach to these issues, paying special attention to Global South countries. Methodologically, I am interested in causal inference problems, online field and survey experiments, network models to deal with large volumes of data, and applications of natural language processing to social science problems.
My recent work was awarded a large research grant from the Tech & Public Policy program at Georgetown’s McCourt School to conduct multi-country field experiments focusing on the effects of misinformation exposure through social media messaging apps on beliefs for misinformation and political attitudes in the Global South. In addition, I am working on a book project with Natalia Aruguete and Ernesto Calvo titled News Sharing, Content Activation and Perceptions of Polarization on Social Media
My research has been published at the Journal of Communication, Comparative Political Studies, PLOS ONE, International Journal of Press/Politics, Electoral Studies, among other influential academic journals. You can download my CV here, or visit the research page for drafts of working papers currently under review.
I am a proud native of the North of Brazil, born and raised in Belém, the largest city in the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest Region. Before moving to the United States, I lived for many years in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which is the most fun and beautiful city in the world. Like most Brazilians, I am is passionate about soccer, coffee, and samba.
Ph.D. and M.A. in Political Science, 2022
University of Maryland, College Park
Ph.D. and M.A. in Political Science, 2018
State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Ba in Law, 2010
Federal University of Para, Brazil
Data Science I: Foundations - Master Level Course at Data Science and Public Policy Program, McCourt School, Georgetown University, 2023
Introduction to Computational Social Science - Undergraduate Seminar at FGV-CPDOC, 2021
Collecting and Analyzing Social Media Data - Big Data Conference at University of Pennsylvania, 2022
Data Processing and Text Analysis / Scrapping and Big data - Two week workshop at IPSA-Flacso Summer School, 2021
Data Visualization (Tidying your model into a nice plot) -Student-led Workshop at UMD, 2020
Collecting and Analyzing Social Media Data with R - Workshop at The Federal University of Para, Brazil, 2019
How to build a R package? - Student-led Workshop at UMD, 2018
Introduction to Tidyverse - Student-led Workshops at UMD, 2018
R Crash Course - GVPT 489: Tweeting Political Crisis, 2018
You can download my CV here