I am a Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Chicago, working with Chenhao Tan at the Chicago Human + AI Lab and with James Evans at Knowledge Lab, in AI for Science and AI Safety. I am also an Associate Researcher of Agentic Complex Systems at the University of São Paulo.
I did my PhD at the University of Chicago with Clay Córdova, in theoretical physics, exploring generalizations of the notion of symmetry in quantum field theory, work recognized with the Nathan Sugarman Award. Earlier, I completed a master's at the University of São Paulo with Gustavo Burdman in particle physics, searching for physics beyond the Standard Model. During it I interned at the Fermilab Theory Division, where, together with Patrick Fox and Bogdan Dobrescu, I solved a longstanding problem in building models of new physics, highlighted by the Brazilian Physical Society.
I arrived at physics sideways. I started university in geography, reading sociology and economics, and became obsessed with philosophy of science. That led me to physics. As an undergraduate I worked with Nestor Caticha on the statistical mechanics of neural networks and their emergent collective behavior, something I am now circling back to.