Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science, Universidad de la República (Uruguay). PhD in Political Science, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (Argentina). Previously, she received a MA in Political Science (2011) and a BA in Political Science (2005) from the Universidad de la República (Uruguay). Her research focuses on Latin American Politics and Politics and Gender. She has published in peer-reviewed journals such as Politics & Politics & Gender, Politics & Society, Sociological Methods & Research, Comparative Political Studies, Urban Affairs, Qualitative & Mixed Methods Research, Comparative Politics, Revista de Ciencia Política, among others. She is co-author with Rafael Piñeiro Rodriguez and Fernando Rosenblatt of the book How Party Activism Survives. The Frente Amplio in Uruguay (Cambridge University Press 2020). In 2020 this book won the Leon Epstein Outstanding Book Award by the Political Organizations and Parties section of the American Political Science Association (APSA). In 2023, the Spanish version of the book won the Real de Azúa Award from the Uruguayan Association in Science and the Claudia Castañeda Award from the Chilean Association of Political Science. She is editor of the Revista Uruguaya de Ciencia Política (RUCP). Researcher (Level I) National System of Researchers of Uruguay.

Consultant for international organizations, including UN Women, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and EUROsociAL+. Her public writing has appeared in Nueva Sociedad, La Diaria, Brecha and in blogs such as Abro Hilo and Razones y Personas.