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Hello! I’m an postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard Academy. I received my Ph.D. in Sociology from the Geneva Graduate Institute.
My work is concerned with how states, markets, and international organizations confront challenges of decarbonization, redistribution, and democracy. I study the Global South, where the tension between these goals shows how transnational finance, institutional structures, and economic elites enable and constraint state capacity. I rely on various methodological tools, from in-depth interviews and archival work to surveys and computational approaches.
My book project, “The Amazon as a Global Carbon Sink”, unpacks environmental state-building—it’s national and transnational processes, and symbolic dimensions—in Brazil from 1985 to 2024 and in other Amazonian Countries. I also collaborate on a longitudinal research endeavor about how elites shape the politics of redistribution in unequal democracies.
My research has received awards from the American Sociological Association (ASA) and the Latin American Studies Association (LASA). It has also been supported by the Swiss Network for International Studies (SNIS), the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research, and Innovation (SERI), and the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF).