I am an Assistant Professor of political philosophy in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Catania, Italy, where I also serve as co-coordinator of the Horizon-MSCA Staff Exchanges research consortium JUSTLA – Justice in the XXI Century: A Perspective from Latin America (ID 101183054). I am also an Assistant researcher at the CEPS – Centre for Ethics, Politics, and Society, where I lead a project funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) on a conception of distributive justice of power.

My research interests include theories of justice, economic inequality, theories of power and domination, human rights, and climate justice. I am particularly concerned with the relationship between economic inequality and political power in liberal democracies, and with how this relationship should shape our understanding of social and distributive justice. My first book, How Rich Should the 1% Be? Proportional Justice and Economic Inequality (Routledge, 2022) explores these themes in depth.

A former Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Political Science at the University of São Paulo, I earned my PhD in Philosophy from the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil, in 2018. I was also a Visiting Researcher at the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina), the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, the Chaire Hoover d’éthique économique et sociale at the Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium), and the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain).