Lecturer at the Graduate School of Economics, Getulio Vargas Foundation, Rio de Janeiro (2002–2011); Research Professor, Rio de Janeiro University Research Institute (1998–2001); Visiting Fellow, University of Salamanca, Spain (2013); Visiting Fellow, Social Sciences Institute, University of Lisbon, Portugal (2006 and 2017-2018); Visiting Professor, Institut d' Études Politiques, Lille, France (2001); and Visiting Fellow, Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administracion (IESA), Caracas, Venezuela, (1995–1996). 

Member of the Editorial Boards of the following journals: Brazilian Political Science Review; Comparative Political Studies (USA); Latin American Politics and Society (USA); Political Studies Review (UK), Parliamentary Affairs (UK), and Relações Internacionais R:I (Portugal), and Revista de Ciencia Política (Chile). 

His work has been published in scientific journals such as: Dados; Opinião Pública; Revista de Economia Política; American Journal of Political Science; British Journal of Political Science; Comparative Political Studies; World Politics; Legislative Studies Quarterly; European Journal of Political Research; Democratization; Studies in Comparative International Development, Party Politics, Armed Forces and Society, Latin American Politics and Society, Latin American Research Review, Journal of Politics in Latin America, and Revista de Ciencia Política. 

He is the author of two books, one an analysis of Brazil’s foreign policy in 1945-2008 entitled De Dutra a Lula: A Condução e os Determinantes da Política Externa Brasileira (Rio de Janeiro: Campus, 2011; published in Spanish by EUDEBA, Buenos Aires, 2014) and the other on Latin America’s presidential democracies entitled Presidencialismo e Governabilidade nas Américas (Rio de Janeiro: FGV Editora, 2006); editor of New Studies on Civil-Military Relations and Defense Policy in Brazil (Rio de Janeiro: FGV Editora, 2022), and co-editor of O Semipresidencialismo nos Países de Língua Portuguesa (Lisbon: ICS, 2009), and of Brasil y México: Encuentros y Desencuentros (Mexico City, Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores, 2005). 

He has been awarded prizes by the Brazilian Political Science Association and the American Political Science Association.  

Educational Background 

• PhD in Political Science, University of California, San Diego campus (1998); 
• Master’s in Political Science, Rio de Janeiro University Research Institute (1991); 
• Bachelor’s in Social Sciences, Rio de Janeiro Federal University (UFRJ) (1987). 

Research Projects for Government Agencies 

• Research Productivity Grant awarded by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) –1C. 
• Scientist of the State of Rio de Janeiro Grant awarded by the Research Support Foundation of the State of Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ) 

Research Interests 

• Brazilian Politics 
• Comparative Political Institutions 
• Decision-Making Processes of Governmental Policies 
• Civil-Military Relations and Defense Policy 
• Latin American Foreign Policy 
• Portuguese Politics 

Programas 

• MSc&PhD
• Professional Master in Public Administration (MAP)