Welcome. Here you will find my research, publications, CV, replication data and teaching materials.
Content analysis package for R (qualitative with LLMs + quantitative) now available on CRAN.
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With Mariana Batista: chapter on Punctuated Equilibrium in Policy Process Frameworks in Practice.
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With Mariana Batista and Lucas Porto: reelection and the promotion of state capacities in Brazilian municipalities.
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I analyzed the government plans of the 172 candidates for governor: 74.4% mention risk or disaster, only 2.3% link it to concrete metrics.
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I am a political scientist, holding a Ph.D. from the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE, 2025), and currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for the Study of the Metropolis (CEM), FAPESP/Cepid/USP, supervised by Prof. Ursula Peres (EACH/USP). I am also a member of the National Institute of Science and Technology on Quality of Government and Policies for Sustainable Development (INCT-QualiGov) and an invited researcher at the Institute for Applied Economic Research (IPEA, Brasília), in the project Intergovernmental Transfers and Brazilian Federalism.
My work investigates how the Brazilian state responds to the unforeseen: in particular, who receives federal emergency resources, when, and why. I use this question as a thread to examine federalism, state capacity and the politics of intergovernmental transfers at the municipal level, combining quantitative designs with qualitative evidence. I also write on public policy (implementation and evaluation) and on replicability and research methods in Political Science.
Before my postdoctoral fellowship, I was a substitute professor of Political Science at the Federal University of the São Francisco Valley (UNIVASF, 2022–2024) and a collaborating professor in the Professional Master in Sociology in National Network (ProfSocio/UNIVASF, 2023–2025). My training includes an M.A. and B.A. at UFPE, an exchange program in International Relations at the University of Coimbra (2016), and courses in Survey Data Analysis at the University of Essex (2019) and Research Transparency and Reproducibility at UC Berkeley (2024).
Latest updates, forthcoming publications and recent achievements.
Between Alerts and Abandonment: Diagnosing Municipal Performance in Natural Disaster Risk Management in Brazilian Capitals. Proc. 2025/15250-0, developed at CEM/USP.
Analysis of risk and disaster mentions in the government plans of 172 gubernatorial candidates, using local LLMs and the acR package. 74.4% mention the topic; only 2.3% with metrics. Repository ↗
Mission: Unforeseen — Governance, State Capacities and Municipal Performance in Disaster Risk Management in Brazil. UFPE, 2025. Recommended for award by the committee. RI/UFPE ↗
Natural disasters, federal emergency resources and municipal elections in Brazil (2012): evidence from a case study. UFPE, 2021. Advised by Gabriela Tarouco.
Political institutions (federalism, local power, state capacity, executive–legislative relations); public policy (implementation, evaluation, budgeting); quantitative and qualitative research methods.
CEM/USP · INCT-QualiGov · Institutions, Government and Public Policy (DCP/UFPE) · Polikt/UNIVASF · Local Crisis and Politics Consortium (UFABC/UFPR/UFPE) · REPSAL.
Content analysis in R, published on CRAN. Package site ↗ · CRAN ↗ · GitHub ↗
Replication materials: datasets and code from my articles and projects, hosted on the Open Science Framework (OSF) and on GitHub. Committed to reproducible research since my Research Transparency and Reproducibility training (UC Berkeley, 2024).
Central hub for all replication projects and pre-registrations. osf.io/ysj2q ↗
Analysis code, R packages (including acR, with its own site and available on CRAN), and teaching materials. github.com/andersonheri ↗
Under construction: datasets and scripts linked to each article are released on OSF as projects progress. If you need a specific material not yet listed, please email me.
FAPESP grant (proc. 2025/15250-0). Supervised by Ursula Peres (EACH/USP).
Invited researcher (2025–) and research assistant (2024–2025) in the intergovernmental transfers project (PNPD).
Professional Master in Sociology in National Network (ProfSocio). Research Methodology and MEDIALIT courses.
Social Sciences, Juazeiro/BA. Methods, public policy, political theory and sociology (also for engineering programs).
FACEPE fellowship. Advised by Dalson Britto Figueiredo Filho. Dissertation recommended for award by the committee.
FACEPE fellowship. Advised by Gabriela da Silva Tarouco; co-advised by Davi Cordeiro Moreira. Thesis on natural disasters, federal emergency resources and municipal elections.
200-hour course at the Essex Summer School / Global South Academic Network (fellowship).
International Relations. Under Carmen Amado Mendes. Santander Ibero-American scholarship.
CNPq undergraduate fellowship (PIBIC, 2014–2017). Advised by Mariana Batista da Silva. PET/MEC scholar (2014–2015). Teaching monitor for Quantitative Methods and Political Theory.
A pocket guide for responsible use of generative AI in research: glossary, criteria for when to use (or avoid) each tool, ~29 ready-to-use prompt templates, an AI usage declaration model for manuscripts, and a decision log to document the process. Download the manual ↗
A two-day, beginner-level, platform-independent workshop I taught at CEM/USP: essential vocabulary, epistemological limits, and 7 guided exercises for responsible use in research, teaching and academic writing. Full repository ↗