Olá, I'm Marcelo! 👋

I'm a Brazilian political scientist and PhD candidate at UC Irvine trying to turn political concepts into objects that can be modeled, tinkered with, simulated, visualized, and sometimes proved.

My coding life sits between formal political theory, computational social science, and complex systems. I build things around collective decision-making, dissent, institutions, agent-based models, survey data, and the strange region where clean mathematical definitions meet messy political behavior.

I mostly use Julia and Python, but dabble with Lean.

Outside code, I am usually (having a beer) reading political theory, philosophy of science, cybernetics, or mathematics.