I am a Computational Social Scientist and Associate Professor at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), Brazil. My research focuses on digital methods, computational sociology, and the sociology of knowledge.
I develop and apply computational methods — including natural language processing, network analysis, and machine learning — to study social phenomena in the digital age. Currently, I serve as Data Analyst at CADE (Brazilian antitrust authority) and coordinate the Digital Humanities Lab at UFBA (LABHDUFBA).
Recent Work
- Social-RAG: A retrieval-augmented generation pipeline for computational social science research on Telegram — PROPOR 2026. PDF
- Democracy “inside out”: On far-right refracted publics in Brazil — Routledge Companion to Digital Media and Democracy.
- Visual and narrative patterns of online misogyny: A computer vision analysis of Telegram chats — OSF Preprints. DOI
Active Projects
- AI Agency and Infrastructures in Social Research — Epistemology of LLMs, RAG systems, and autonomous agents in social science (2025–present)
- Health Information Integrity — Multi-platform disinformation and public health impacts (CNPq, 2024–present)
- Digital Democracy — Disinformation ecosystems on Telegram during Brazilian elections (CNPq / InternetLab, 2022–present)