I am a researcher in the Department of Public Policy at Central European University in Vienna. Starting in August 2026, I will lead an Austrian Science Fund ESPRIT grant investigating public perceptions of sovereign debt in Europe and Latin America.
I study how governments in the Global South navigate global economic pressures. My work asks how commodity prices, capital markets, and international organizations shape domestic politics: how states design fiscal policy, attract foreign investment, produce reliable statistics, elect local representatives, and respond to climate change.
Before moving to Vienna, I was an Assistant Professor at Colorado State University and a Junior Research Fellow at the Carlos III – Juan March Institute in Madrid. I hold a PhD in Government and an MS in Statistics from the University of Texas at Austin, in addition to degrees in Political Science and Latin American Studies from Freie Universität Berlin. I was born in Brazil and named Iasmin (rather than the more traditional Yasmin) because Y was not a letter of the Portuguese alphabet at the time. I like spicy food, yoga, bikes, swimming, running, and reading fiction (here’s my reading list).