Education
- PhD in Social Science and Public Policy, King’s College London (Brazil Institute), 2015-2020
Thesis: ‘Oversee & Punish: Understanding the fight against corruption involving government workers in the federal executive branch in Brazil’. Supervisors: Professor Anthony Pereira (King’s Brazil Institute) and Dr Sónia Gonçalves (King’s Management School). Thesis examiners: Professor Timothy Power (University of Oxford) and Dr Mathew Taylor (American University).
- MA in Criminology and Criminal Justice, King’s College London (School of Law), 2011-2012
Passed with distinction. Dissertation: ‘Big Fish Out of Water: The Unequal Fight Against Political Corruption in Brazil’. Supervisor: Professor Maurice Punch.
- Postgraduate Diploma in Crime and Public Safety, UFMG (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil), 2006
Passed with merit. Dissertation: ‘Segurança Privada: a terceirização do olhar no combate à criminalidade (Private Security: the “third eye” against crime)’. Supervisor: Professor Antonio Augusto Pereira Prates.
- BA in Social Communication, major in Journalism, PUC-Minas (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais), Brazil, 1997-2000.
Scientific activities and research experience
Responsibilities: 1) Assist the Scientific Coordinator in the management of the project and in the coordination of the international consortium of 16 partners working on it; 2) Lead the WP 7 on Cross-border political corruption. coordinating qualitative, mixed-methods and quantitative research carried out by researchers from the University of Bologna, King's College London, University of Lisbon, CEU, Duisburg-Essen and the Anti-Corruption Action Center; 3) Coordinate the research tasks entrusted to Unibo, with related data collection and analysis; 4) Co-author the Charter of Ethics and related documents; the Data Management Plan; policy briefs; and create an online atlas of grassroots anti-corruption efforts; 5) Organize conferences and workshops related to the project.
Responsibilities: - Conducting extensive data collection in Brazil and Uruguay and actively contributing to comparative data analysis throughout the entire project. - Assisting the BIT-ACT Principal Investigator, in 1) developing a secure database for sensitive data collected by the team, enabling collaborative data analysis; 2) collaborating in the development of ethics charter and risk assessment and data management plans; 3) managing the project’s promotion on social media and update its website at https://site.unibo.it/bit-act/en ; 4) co-organizing conferences, webinars, and workshops, to enhance project visibility and outreach; 5) helping to prepare grant proposals; 6) selecting team members, by integrating the selection board to select 7 country experts, one research assistant and one research fellow.
- December 2019 – up to now | Co-creator and research affiliate at the Global Anti-Corruption Studies Research Group, based at King’s College London. Responsibilities: organizing conferences and workshops, co-editing publications, applying for grants.
Grants and Awards
- 2023 ECPR Bonus Fund Grant for the research project ‘When citizens (re)act? Democratic innovations for fighting corruption’ – £ 5,000 (with Dale Mineshima-Lowe, Birkbeck, University of London)
- 2020/2021 UNDOC Education for Justice (E4J) for the workshop ‘Corruption and Anticorruption in Brazil & China’ – USD 20,000 (with Dr Konstantinos Tsimonis and Prof Anthony Pereira, King’s College London)
- King’s Brazil Institute Research Fund Competition (for the international conference ‘Corruption in the BRICS Countries’) - £ 5,000
- 2022 Best paper of the standing group ‘Social Control and the Fight Against Corruption’ at the 9th Brazilian Meeting of Public Administration.
- 2020 Best PhD Thesis (honourable mention) – Association of Brazilianists in Europe (ABRE) [http://abre.eu/premio-abre-da-melhor-tese/]
Keynote Speeches, Invited Talks and Interviews (selected)
- January 2025 - Guest speaker at the Countering Environmental Corruption Practitioners Forum's Online Session: The Role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Tools in Tackling Environmental Crimes and Corruption. Online, January 28, 2025.
- November 2024 - Guest speaker at the Hack-IT community of practice: innovative pedagogies for responsible education workshop. Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania. November 21, 2024.
- September 2024 – Guest speaker at the DIG Festival. ‘Streets, Tear Gas, and Hashtags. An Atlas of Protests Worldwide’. Modena, Italy, September 21, 2024.
- June 2024 - Guest speaker at the U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre's Workshop Leveraging AI for anti-corruption: From evidence to impact. Bergen, Norway. June 6, 2024
- April 2024 – Guest speaker at School of Law, Sciences Po Paris. Unfairness in AI anti-corruption tools: main drivers and consequences. April 3, 2024.
- October 2023 – Keynote speaker at the 6th ACA - Academia against Corruption in the Americas Conference. Mexico City. October 18-20, 2023.
- June 2023 – Interview at the American Society of International Law.
- May 2022 – Interview at the Interesse Nacional
- October 2021 – Interview at the Kickback – The Global Anticorruption Podcast
- November 2020 – Invited talk at the Columbia – School of International and Public Affairs
- January 2017 – Invited talk at the UCL Institute of Americas
- January 2016 – Interview for the BBC Brasil
