Visiting Scholars

Luksic Visiting Scholar, Autumn 2024

Ana Figueiredo (she/her) is a psychologist and holds a PhD in Social Psychology (Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal in collaboration with the Universiteit van Amsterdam, the Netherlands). She is currently an Associate Professor at the Universidad de O’Higgins (Chile) and an Associate Researcher at the Center for Social Conflict and Cohesion Studies (COES, Chile). Besides being a co-researcher in different projects both in Chile and Portugal, she recently finished a project funded by the Chilean National Agency for Research and Development (ANID) titled “Postcolonial ideologies, politics of recognition and reparation, and current intergroup relations: The Mapuche in...

Nabuco Visiting Scholar, Winter 2025

Paulo Guimarães (Rio de Janeiro, 1978) is a Full Professor of Ecology at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. His research program focuses on understanding the origin, maintenance, and fragility of interaction patterns observed in species-rich ecological assemblages in terms of ecological and evolutionary processes operating at different scales. His research combines empirical data on ecological interactions, information on the natural history of interacting species, mathematical modeling, and network science. Much of his work centers on the structure of these ecological networks, particularly involving interactions among plants and animals in tropical ecosystems. As a result...

Luksic Visiting Scholar, Winter 2025

Juan Matta is an applied microeconomist with research interests in the economics of education, gender and inequality. He holds a Ph.D. in Public Administration from NYU and is currently an Assistant Professor of Economics at Universidad Diego Portales, where he teaches intermediate microeconomics, impact evaluation, and labor economics.