¡Bienvenidos! Welcome!

I am Senior Lecturer in Comparative Politics at Politics at the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology at Newcastle University. I was previously an Associate Professor at the Political Studies Division at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE).

I completed a PhD in Political Science at the University of Michigan. My research looks at the effect of different social contexts on people’s political behavior. For example, I have looked at the influence of people's racial appearance (phenotypes) on their political and social behavior in Brazil, Mexico, and the U.S.A; I have also looked at the effect of party labels in Mexico and Uganda. I have also analyzed the role of emotions as moderators of political judgment in Hungary, while being a Visiting Professor at the Central European University (CEU) and a at the Institute for Political Science at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. .

I am also working in different new projects. One looks at the relationship between populism, misinformation and conspiracy theories. The other looks at motivated reasoning and evaluation of opinion polls. Finally, I am interested in researching better measurement methods for political concepts in survey methodology.

I have been involved in large survey projects like the Mexican National Elections Study that is part of the Comparative Studies of Electoral Systems. I am a member of the Journal of Experimental Political Science, Political Behavior, and Revista Latinoamericana de Opinión Pública's editorial boards, as well as Associate Editor of Journal of Experimental Political Science. I participate in the Board of Directors of the Evidence and Governance in Politics network (EGAP).

I also enjoy teaching. I have taught different courses: 1) Introduction to Comparative Politics; 2) Psychological Processes of Racial Prejudice in the U.S.A.; 3) Construction of Mexico's National Identity and Racial Ideology; 4) Public Opinion and Political Behavior; and 5) Political Psychology and Experimental Methods; 5) Mexican Politics