I am an Assistant Professor at the Departamento de Ciencias Sociales of the Universidad Católica del Uruguay. I hold a Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University and a B.A. in Sociology from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. In the Spring of 2023 I was the Santo Domingo Visiting Scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, at Harvard University. In the 2019-2020 academic year, I was a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Weatherhead Center Research Cluster on Challenges to Democracy, at Harvard University.

My research focuses on populism, political parties, and political representation in Latin America. My book project conceptualizes and explains societal polarization under populist rule in the Andes. I am also interested in recent democratic decay in Latin America. Finally, I am interested en concept formation and measurement, as well as in qualitative methods for causal inference. My work has been published in The Journal of Democracy, The Oxford Handbook of Historical Institutionalism, Sociological Methods & Research, British Journal of Sociology, Quality & Quantity International Journal of Methodology, among other outlets.