About

I am a post-doctoral researcher in Computational Social Science at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA) at the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs at Leiden University, Netherlands. I hold a DPhil (PhD) in Politics from the University of Oxford, United Kingdom. Before my DPhil, I earned an MA (1st) in Political Science and a BA (2:1) in Government, both from the Universidad de Chile. My research interests lie in the intersection of comparative politics and government, focusing mainly on cabinets, political regimes and civil services. Methodologically, my interests rely on the application of quantitative text analysis, machine learning methods and causal inference strategies in the comparative politics field. In the last years, my work has been published in The International Journal of Press/Politics, World Development, Government and Opposition, The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Bulletin of Latin American Research and elsewhere. During my post-doctorate, I will be working on two research projects funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) related to how the rule of law has changed over time and automated text analysis of investment data to study the effects of governance on sustainable investments. Specifically, I will employ Natural Language Processing (NLP) and text-as-data techniques to find patterns and topics within big text data.

Research Interests

Comparative Politics, Executives, Latin America, Public Administration, Methods

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Standing Groups and Research Networks

• Presidential Politics
• Elites and Political Leadership
• Political Methodology
• Latin American Politics