Previously, I was an Assistant Professor at Lusíada University of Lisbon and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Lisbon’s Institute of Social Sciences (ICS) where I started the REGROWTH project “How a Nation is Born: Reconstructing Four Centuries of Brazilian Economic Growth.” After two years at ICS, I continued the project for two more years at Lusíada with a grant from the Haddad Foundation.

I have a doctoral degree in economics from the University of Brasilia, with a one-year period as visiting scholar (with field class credit for Political Economy) at Harvard University. My dissertation was selected as one of the best in the department in the last four-year period.

Before ICS, I was an advisor to the chief prosecutor of the Research Department at the Federal Labor Prosecution Office (MPT) in Brazil and an economist at SmartLab, a joint initiative of the MPT with the International Labor Organization, and a research affiliate at the University of Brasilia’s Department of Economics.