Curriculum vitae
CV
Education, research and professional experience, fellowships, awards, skills and references.
Education
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M.A. in Political Science
Institute of Social and Political Studies (IESP-UERJ) · Advisor: Fernando Meireles, Ph.D.
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B.Sc. in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
School of Applied Mathematics (FGV EMAp) · Advisor: Luiz Max Carvalho, Ph.D.
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B.A. in Social Sciences
School of Social Sciences (FGV CPDOC) · Advisor: Jaqueline Porto Zulini, Ph.D.
Research experience
Laboratories, IESP-UERJ
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NECON (IESP-UERJ)
Researcher at the Center for Studies on Congress, coordinated by Fabiano Santos. I work on the lab's databases on roll-call votes and legislative production.
A technical note applying spatial models of voting to the 2026 presidential race.
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DOXA (IESP-UERJ)
Researcher at the Laboratory of Electoral Studies, Political Communication and Public Opinion, coordinated by Fernando Meireles and Argelina Cheibub Figueiredo. I work on the design and analysis of the lab's public opinion surveys, including weighting and post-stratification.
Analysis of the DOXA survey on how the population of the state of Rio de Janeiro learns about politics, now a DOXA discussion paper.
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MAPE (IESP-UERJ)
Researcher at the Laboratory for Monitoring and Evaluation of Policies and Elections, coordinated by Fernando Meireles and Bruno Schaefer. I build and maintain the mape_municipios database and its public interface, and teach in the lab's methodological training.
A Streamlit application that lets users interact with mape_municipios, a database covering 30 years and 451 variables on Brazilian municipalities.
Funded projects
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Pensando o Direito research grant, MJSP
Researcher. Systematic review of the evidence on a set of public security policies for the Legal Amazon, organized around the idea of a qualified entry of the State into vulnerable territories, following the OQF (O Que Funciona?) protocol developed at MAPE. I run the search protocol, screening, and evidence extraction. Project coordinated by Djane Braz Duarte. Expected deliveries: (i) an analytical report for the Ministry; (ii) an article submitted to a peer-reviewed journal; (iii) entries on the reviewed policies in the Dicionário de Favelas Marielle Franco.
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RESA project, UFAC and IESP-UERJ
Researcher on the socioeconomic and environmental impacts of family-based agroextractive production in the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve, in Acre, with an emphasis on what cooperatives change in land use and in household income. I handle the quantitative data and build the project's public monitoring platform. Coordinated by Luci Maria Teston (UFAC), with IESP-UERJ as a partner institution.
A preliminary version of the monitoring platform, covering deforestation in Acre.
Earlier positions
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School of Public and Business Administration, FGV EBAPE
Research Assistant. Digitized and systematized historical election results using OCR and LLMs, under the supervision of Prof. Cesar Zucco, Ph.D.
Databases extracted from historical images, source code, and a technical report.
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CEBRAP
Consultant for the Center for Critical Imagination. Applied OCR and LLMs to the Brazilian Statistical Yearbooks, published as manuscripts, to systematize social assistance data since the early 20th century. In collaboration with José Szwako, Ph.D.
Databases extracted from PDFs, source code, and a technical report.
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School of Social Sciences, FGV CPDOC
Junior Research Fellow. Supported by an FGV/CNPq fellowship, examined Executive-Legislative relations in the early 20th century using qualitative and quantitative methods. Supervised by Prof. Jaqueline Porto Zulini, Ph.D.
Three technical reports and one peer-reviewed article.
Professional experience
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AtlasIntel
Data Scientist working on calibrating survey samples, political analysis, monitoring public opinion, and improving internal data pipelines.
Cut the retrieval of Brazilian demographic data for sample weighting from a manual, multi-hour task to a single scripted call.
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Independent Consultant in Data Science and Research
Data and AI work, research support, and training for clients across sectors.
- Artplan: applied deep learning to social media segmentation.
- Fundação Roberto Marinho: dashboards in Streamlit and Power BI, an AWS data lake, and Python/ML training.
- Plataforma CIPÓ: training modules in machine learning and data analysis.
- GENI/UFF: LLM and RAG tools for structured extraction from unstructured documents.
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Instituto Rio21
Data Scientist and Researcher. Ran and analyzed opinion polls on public policy and urban security.
(i) An automated Python pipeline that cut report production from days to about an hour; (ii) interactive and programmatic maps for corporate audiences.
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Strategic Planning Superintendence, FGV
Data Science Intern. Brought generative AI into decision-making pipelines and prepared presentations for FGV's executive leadership.
A RAG pipeline for querying FGV researchers' publications in natural language.
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Visagio
Part-time Data Scientist. Optimization models, SQL pipelines, and Power BI dashboards for the pricing and operations teams.
(i) A sample-size calculator for A/B tests in complex non-experimental settings; (ii) Power BI dashboards for expense auditing; (iii) analytics for allocating discount campaigns.
Fellowships and grants
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Graduate fellowship, Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ Nota 10), awarded for performance in the first year of the M.A. programme at IESP-UERJ.
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Research grant, Pensando o Direito programme, Ministry of Justice and Public Security (MJSP).
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Master's fellowship, Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES).
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Undergraduate research fellowship (CNPq).
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90% merit scholarship for undergraduate study at the Getulio Vargas Foundation, awarded for performance in the entrance examination.
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Undergraduate research fellowship (FGV).
Awards and distinctions
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2nd Runner Up, Best DH Tool or Suite of Tools – DH Awards 2025, for RelicárIA (joint work with Danielle Sanches de Almeida).
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Professor Carlos Eduardo Sarmento Academic Distinction Award, School of Social Sciences (FGV CPDOC), for achieving the highest academic performance among the Class of 2025 undergraduate students.
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1st place admission to the Master's program in Political Science at IESP-UERJ.
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Best Paper Award, History and Social Sciences Students' Week (FGV CPDOC).
Conferences & Training
Conferences attended as participant and training activities. For presentations, see Research.
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Effective Altruism Global – San Francisco, CA, United States (full funding).
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Academic writing and publication of quantitative papers in Social Sciences @ IESP-UERJ.
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SICSS: Summer Institute in Computational Social Science – Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
Skills
- R, Python, SQL, Git, LaTeX and Quarto.
- Causal inference; survey sampling, weighting, and post-stratification; text-as-data and NLP; machine learning and deep learning.
- Streamlit, DuckDB, Power BI, AWS, LLM APIs and RAG pipelines (OpenAI, Groq, xAI, LlamaIndex, LangChain), Docling and DocTR for OCR.
References
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Fernando Meireles, Ph.D.
IESP-UERJ · M.A. advisor
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Argelina Cheibub Figueiredo, Ph.D.
IESP-UERJ
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Bruno Schaefer, Ph.D.
IESP-UERJ
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Fabiano Santos, Ph.D.
IESP-UERJ
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Jaqueline Zulini, Ph.D.
FGV CPDOC · B.A. advisor
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Luiz Max Carvalho, Ph.D.
FGV EMAp · B.Sc. advisor