Inés Fynn's research interests center on analyzing interactions between citizens and the State through informal and illicit channels in Latin America. Her primary research areas are organized crime and informal welfare provision. In the organized crime domain, she examines how criminal organizations influence citizen-state relationships, exploring mechanisms governing citizens' silence commitments with drug gangs. She also investigates how and why criminal governance occurs in contexts where the State is present. In her informal welfare provision research, Fynn delves into non-state mechanisms of social protection in Latin America, seeking to explain variation in informal welfare types and distribution from a political economy perspective, emphasizing how political actors utilize it for mobilization and political engagement.

Inés Fynn es Profesora Asistente en el Departamento de Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad Católica del Uruguay. Obtuvo su Doctorado en Ciencia Política en la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Además, es miembro tanto del Instituto del Milenio para la Investigación Fundacional de Datos como del Instituto Milenio para la Investigación en Violencia y Democracia (VIODEMOS). Recibió una Beca de Estudiante de Posgrado de ANID-Chile y se desempeñó como becaria visitante de GPD en Brown University durante el otoño de 2019.