Curriculum vitae

Education

Period of six months as a visiting student at HEC Montréal, Canada. PhD thesis entitled "Fake News on Social Media Platforms in the Context of Rumor Theory: The Case of Covid-19". PhD thesis approved with distinction.
2019 - 2021
Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM), Brazil

Specialization in Applied Probability and Statistics

Dissertation entitled "Analysis of the Evolution of Mortality Rates of Children Up to one-year-old Residing in the State of Rio Grande do Sul".
2017 - 2019
Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM), Brazil

Master's in Production Engineering

Master's thesis entitled "Analysis of Mortality Rates per Work Accidents in the Southern Region of Brazil".
2012 - 2016
Fundação Educacional Machado de Assis (Fema), Brazil

Bachelor in Business Management

Experience

Jun 2024 - current
School of Engineering Sciences, LUT University, Finland

Postdoctoral researcher

Main duties: lead the design, execution, analysis, and writing of scie ... read more
Sep 2025
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge’s Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI)

Main duties: lead the design, execution, analysis, and writing of scie ... read more
Jul 2023 - May 2024
Instituto Federal de Santa Catarina (IFSC)

Assistant professor

Teaching courses and advising Undergraduate students ... read more
Nov 2022 - May 2023
HEC Montréal

Visiting student

Project entitled "Understanding Facebook users' motivations for sharing fake news about Covid-19" funded by Mitacs Globalink and supported by Cirano.
Feb 2019 - Jul 2023
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS)

Junior researcher

Funded by CAPES (Brazilian Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education)

Trainings

SICSS
Institution: SICSS Date: Jun-Jul 2025 Workload: 2 weeks full-time
Includes accommodation, meals, and participation free of charge. ... read more
LUT University
Pedagogical training
Institution: LUT University Date: Sept 2025 Workload: 11 ECTS Read more
LUT University
Project manager
Institution: LUT University Date: Nov 2024

Awards

PUCRS
PhD Thesis approved with distinction
Institution: PUCRS Date: May 2023

Grants

LUT University
Visiting grant for a 1-month visit at CFI, University of Cambridge 🇬🇧
Institution: LUT University Date: Sep 2025
ICA 2025
Michael Haley Travel Grant for the 75th Annual ICA Conference 🇺🇸
Institution: ICA 2025 Date: Jun 2025 Value: €220 (US$250)
Mitacs scholarship 🇨🇦
Date: Nov 2022 - May 2023 Value: €3,750 (CA$6,000)
CAPES scholarship 🇧🇷
Date: 2017 - 2023 Value: €20,300 (R$132,600)

Methodological skills

Data Analysis

  • Time Series Analysis
  • Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA)
  • Structural Equation Modeling (SEM)
  • Correlation Analysis
  • Regression Analysis
  • Cosine Similarity
  • Structural Topic Modeling (STM)
  • Sentiment Analysis
  • Fuzzy-set QCA (fsQCA)

Software

  • R
  • R Markdown
  • SPSS
  • SmartPLS
  • IRaMuTeQ
  • QualCoder
  • Python

Others

  • Manager in the LUMI supercomputer project “Ideology and propaganda in the context of AI" since 2024.