I am a Provost Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Political Science at the University of Southern California, studying comparative political behavior with a regional focus on Latin America.
My research explores different factors affecting political behavior, ideology and attitudes, including exposure to immigration, elections, state indoctrination and access to the Internet. Currently, I am researching about ideology, south-south migration, individualistic attitudes and ideological gender gaps.
I use various quantitative methods: experiments, quasi-experiments with observational data, and text analysis, always prioritizing causal identification. My research has been published in Comparative Political Studies, PLoS One, the European Political Science Review, International Interactions, and Nature Partner Journal Vaccines, among others.
Before my PhD at Columbia University, I worked in the Chilean government, in a political campaign and completed a Master’s in Public Administration.
15 peer-reviewed publications, working papers, and a book project on voting behavior in Chile.
On Political Behavior
On Survey Research Methods
On Political Elites
Work in Progress
Book Project
Book Chapters (Spanish)
Courses in comparative politics and research methods at USC, Oxford, Columbia, and UC Chile.
Instructor — University of Southern California
Seminar Leader — Oxford University
Teaching Assistant — Columbia University
Teaching Assistant — Universidad Católica de Chile
PhD in Political Science · Columbia University, 2023
Updated March 2026
Provost Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Political Science, University of Southern California
PhD in Political Science — Columbia University
Major: Comparative Politics · Minor: Quantitative Methods
Master in Public Policy — New York University
BA in Sociology — Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Center for International Studies Grant — USC
To study voting gender gaps in the United States
Center for International Studies Grant — USC
$3,000
ISERP Research Grant — Columbia University
$20,000
Columbia Dissertation Grant
$1,800
ILAS Grant — Columbia University
$2,000
Dean’s Fellow — Columbia University
Becas Chile
Spanish (native) · English (fluent)
STATA · LaTeX · R
QGIS · Python
Commentary on Latin American politics, elections, ideology, and political behavior for general and policy audiences.
En Español
A workshop on survey data quality, methods, and research design for social scientists at USC.
About the Workshop
Survey data is available everywhere. However, we should not assume it is always high-quality, representative, or reliable. In fact, the current flurry of data sources and AI tools makes it more important than ever to have the skills to judge the quality of the measures we use. This will allow us to rigorously analyze survey data and answer substantive research questions.
Goals
Audience
The audience for this workshop is primarily USC graduate students in Political Science, Sociology, and other social science departments. Because the workshop has a strong “how-to” component, it will be especially helpful for students who lack practical skills in this area but want to use survey data in their dissertations.