I am an anthropologist and researcher. For more than a decade I have been studying the social impacts of new technologies, especially on the worlds of work and politics. In 2023, I have been awarded a Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation, a program that supports emerging scholars whose work has the potential to transform anthropology. With this support, I am completing the manuscript of my next book “Hyperconnected and Hoping for the Best: alternative work, digital platforms and social change in Brazil”. This book documents the economic, social, and political consequences stemming from the encounter between socioeconomic struggles in a peripheral capitalist society and algorithm-driven companies based in Silicon Valley.

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I am currently based at the Institute for Social and Political Studies of the State University of Rio de Janeiro in partnership with the Institute of Economics of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. I am a member of the Anthropology of Work Network, at the Latin American Anthropological Association and a member of the “Work in contemporary capitalism” group at The Latin American Council of Social Sciences. I was a Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Social & Policy Sciences at the University of Bath, received PhD and Master’s degrees in Anthropology from the Fluminense Federal University and a Master’s degree in Sociology of Contemporary Societies from the School of Humanities and Social Science Sorbonne at Paris Descartes University.