I am a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Politics and Research Methods at King’s College London, specializing in political behavior and research methods education. My teaching has been recognized with the Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award at UC San Diego and the Class Teacher Award at LSE.

My pedagogy research explores how to teach transferable skills that support both career-building and democratic engagement. I’ve developed open-access resources for quantitative methods education, validated through a published experiment showing significant learning gains.

In my political science research, I show that cultural values serve as trust signals between voters and politicians, challenging conventional wisdom about cultural politics as distraction.

As Academic Director of Instituto Itéramãxe, I lead research workshops that have helped 100 students from disadvantaged backgrounds enter graduate programs in Brazil.