I am a researcher whose work crosses politics, psychology, and history
I completed my doctoral studies in Politics at the University of São Paulo in 2015, followed by a second doctorate in Psychology at the University of Melbourne in 2022. Since 2015, I have held faculty, research, and visiting appointments at Harvard University, Boston University, the University of Cambridge, the University of Copenhagen, the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), the University of Melbourne, the Australian National University, the University of São Paulo, FLACSO Argentina, and the Universidad de los Andes (Colombia).
My research is organised into two principal streams. The first is the political psychology of security and foreign policy, where I focus on the psychological and neurological underpinnings of how public opinion and leadership shape attitudes and behaviours towards international events. The second stream is the history of thought in international relations, in which I analyse the intellectual and conceptual history of non-Western contributions to theorising world politics, with particular emphasis on the agency of peripheral regions and the sociological dynamics of knowledge production.