Associate professor at the Department of Political Science, the University of São Paulo (USP) and fellow at Forum for Strategic Policies, Rectory, State University of Campinas (UNICAMP). She is a principal investigator of the network of excellence “Brazil, 25 years of democracy: a critical appraisal”, supported by the Brazilian Council of Science and Technology (CNPq). She is also a member of the Advisor Committee of the Master Program on Research, Innovation and Higher Education (MARIHE), a joint program organized by the Danube University Krems, the University of Tampere, the University of Applied Science of Osnabrück, and the Beijing Normal University.