Welcome!

I am a full professor at the Institute of Political Science at the Pontificial Catholic University of Chile, an associate researcher at the Centre for Social Conflict and Cohesion Studies (COES) and director of the Laboratory for the Study of the Far Right (ultra-lab). I am currently in charge of the PhD Program in Political Science at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

I received my PhD in political science from the Humboldt-University of Berlin and after this I was a postdoctoral fellow at Nuffield College at Oxford University and the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB). Before obtaining my current position, I worked as a professor at Universidad Diego Portales in Santiago de Chile and as a Marie-Curie research fellow at the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom. In recent years I have been a visiting professor at the Scuola Normale Superiore (SNS) in Italy, Sciences Po in France and Uppsala University in Sweden.

Together with Cas Mudde (University of Georgia), I co-authored the book Populism: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2017), which has been translated into several languages, including Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, and Thai, among others. My primary research focus is comparative politics and nowadays I am particularly interested in studying the far-right in Latin America within a broader comparative perspective.