Bio and CV

I joined the Vienna School of International Studies (Diplomatische Akademie Wien) in 2021 as a postdoctoral fellow. I am currently a faculty member and associated researcher, where I teach Qualitative Methods in International Relations and Brazilian Foreign Policy across several programmes, including the Master of Advanced International Studies (MAIS), the MSc in Environmental Technology & International Affairs (ETIA), and the MSc in Digital International Affairs (DIA).

From 2019 to 2021, I was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Sciences Po, within the Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE). My broader research interests include the interplay between media and political attitudes, foreign policy discourse analysis, and the role of soft power in contemporary international politics with particular interest on the foreign policy of middle and emerging powers.

My teaching experience includes a six-year period as a teaching fellow at the University of Warwick (UK) at the Department of Economics (2014-2017) and at the Department of Politics and International Studies (2017-2019), in addition to a one-year period as a teaching fellow at Sciences Po Paris (2023-2024). I have also designed and delivered courses on Comparative Politics, Media and Politics, Brazilian Foreign Policy,  Geopolitics, Global Political Economy, Environmental Politics & Economics, EU institutions and policy-making, and Foreign Policy Analysis in several institutions such as the Catholic University of Lille, Getulio Vargas Foundation, American University of Rome, Skema Business School and others. 

Education

2010 - Ph.D. in Political Science, European University Institute (EUI), Florence, Italy

2003 - M.A. in International Relations, Pontifical Catholic University (PUC-Rio), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2000 - B.A. in Business Administration, Pontifical Catholic University (PUC-Rio), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

1998 - B.A. in Biology (Genetics), Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Grants and awards

2023 - French Higher Education qualification for the position of Lecturer (Qualification aux fonctions de Maître·sse de Conférences)

2019 - 2021 - Marie Sklodowska Curie Postodctoral fellowship (EU’s Horizon 2020 program, agreement No 841111) 

Project title: The fourth estate? media, frames and political behaviour towards the EU in comparative perspective (MEDPOL)

2016 - ESRC dissemination grant. The UK in a Changing Europe

Project title: Attitudes towards the EU: Euroscepticism in the British media and the impact on the political debate (£10,000)

2011 - EU Institute for Security Studies, visiting research fellowship 

2009 - 2011 - Brazilian Research Council (CNPq), research grant, project History of Brazilian Nuclear Policy 

2005 - European University Institute (EUI), Financial support to attend the Oslo Summer School in Comparative Social Sciences 

2003 - 2007 - Coordenaçao de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior (CAPES), Brazilian Ministry of Education. PhD grant 

2002 - 2003 - Fundaçao de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ), "Bolsista Nota 10" (grant for outstanding students), M. A. level 

2001 - 2002 - Coordenaçao de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior (CAPES), Brazilian Ministry of Education. Student grant, M.A. level 

Professional experience

• Since 2021: Postdoctoral (research) fellow, Vienna School of International Studies 

• 2023-2024: Teaching fellow (ATER), Sciences Po Paris (Menton and Dijon campuses)

• 2019-2021: Marie Curie Fellow, Science sPo Paris

• 2014-2019: University of Warwick, Coventry, UK

Teaching fellow at the Departments of Economics (2014-17) and Politics and International Studies (2017-19)

• 2012-2014: American Graduate School (AGS), Paris, France

  • Assistant professor

• 2012-2017: Université Catholique de Lille, Lille, France

  • Adjunct professor and research associate to the European School of Political and Social Sciences (ESPOL)

• 2011: European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS), Paris, France

  • Visiting fellow

  • Research project Regionalism and Disarmament: Insights from South America

• 2009-2011: Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  • Research assistant at the Center for Contemporary History (CPDOC) Project History of Nuclear Power in Brazil

• 2008-2009: American University of Rome (AUR), Rome, Italy

  • Adjunct professor

• 2007 - Brazilian Mission to the European Union

  • Intern

• 2000-2003: Center for the Studies of the Americas (CEAs), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  • Research and project assistant. Project International Insertion of Brazilian Security

• 1999 - Infoglobo Comunicaçoes (press and online media), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  • Intern, marketing and publicity

Languages

• Portuguese: mother tongue

• English: reads, writes and speaks - native speaker level

• French: reads, writes and speaks fluently

• Spanish: reads, writes and speaks - advanced level

• Italian: reads and speaks - advanced level

• German: intermediate (B2)