Biography
Teaching Fellow in International Relations, teaching courses on international politics, security studies, and public policy to undergraduate and graduate students.
DPhil in International Relations, University of Oxford
BA in Economics, São Paulo State University (UNESP)
TEACHING
I have experience teaching students at various stages, including undergraduate and graduate students, as well as mid-career and senior professionals.
At Southampton, I teach (or have taught) the following modules: Introduction to International Relations, Theorizing International Politics, Security Theory, Domination and the Arts of Resistance, Politics & Protest, and Public Ethics & Public Policy.
Before joining Southampton, I taught in several programmes at the University of Oxford. At Oxford’s Department of International Development (ODID), I taught three modules at the MSc in Global Governance and Diplomacy (GGD): Foundations of Global Governance and Diplomacy, Peacebuilding and Statebuilding, and Non-Violent Resistance Movements. At the Blavatnik School of Government, I was a seminar leader, teaching Politics of Policy-Making and Economics of Public Policies (2017-2019) at the Master of Public Policy (MPP) programme. I was also a tutor of International Politics at Oxford’s Diplomatic Studies Programme (2018).
I have experience in Executive Education, especially in teaching research methods and evidence-based policy-making to mid-career and senior professionals. For example, I designed and delivered courses on research methods and evidence-based policing for senior officers in the São Paulo State Police, Brazil’s largest police force, training approximately 600 officers over four years (2019-2022).
RESEARCH
My primary research interests lie in security studies, foreign policy analysis, and public policy, with a focus on: (i) foreign policy strategies (mostly in Latin America), and (ii) militarism and militarization, especially how the security sector (e.g., the military, police forces, the security industry, think-tanks) builds legitimacy. I employ various methods, including archival research, participant observation, social media analysis, and econometrics.
Recent academic contributions have been published in Foreign Policy Analysis, Security Dialogue, Security Studies, Journal of Global Security Studies, British Journal of Politics & International Relations, and others.
POLICY
I have experience conducting policy-oriented research at the Institute for Applied Economic Research (Ipea), a leading public research institute with offices in Brasília and Rio de Janeiro. My research focused on foreign policy, security issues, regulation of dangerous goods (such as arms and hazardous substances), science-policy interfaces, and the politics of policy-making.
Prior to a career in research and education, I served as an officer in the Brazilian Army.