Welcome! I am a full professor at the Institute of Political Science at the Pontificial Catholic University of Chile and director of the Laboratory for the Study of the Far Right (ultra-lab). I am director of research and postgraduate studies of the Faculty of History, Geography and 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 Marie-Curie research fellow at the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom and as a professor at Universidad Diego Portales in Santiago de Chile. In recent years I have been a visiting professor at the Free University of Berlin in Germany, 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 main area of research is comparative politics, with a particular focus on both Latin America and Europe. Together with Carlos Meléndez, Talita Tanscheit, and Lisa Zanotti, I co-edited The Far Right in Latin America (Cambridge University Press), published in 2026, which has also been published in Spanish by Editorial Planeta.