Grants

Awards

John W. Gardner Award for the best social science dissertation, School of Social Science, Rice University (2018). “Ballots, Vote Casting Procedures and Electoral Outcomes”

William P. Hobby Award. Best Political Science Paper Presented at a Professional Conference, Rice University (2014). “Ballot Design and Intraparty Fragmentation. Electronic Vote in Brazil.”

Southwestern Political Science Association. Best Graduate Student Paper Award for papers presented at the 2013 Meeting (2013). “Rage Against the Machine. The Impact of Changes in Vote-Casting Procedures in National Elections Turnout.”

Rice University School of Social Science. Best Paper by a First Year Political Science Graduate Student (2011). “Splitting the Ballot: A Natural Experiment on Electronic Vote.”

Universidad de Buenos Aires, School of Social Science. Honors Degree in Political Science (2002).

Grants and Fellowships

APSA Centennial Grant for Supplemental Research Support Funding (2017-2018): “The Impact of Ballot Placement on the Election of Female and Minority Candidates” (with Tiffany Barnes and Constanza Schibber).

National Science Foundation. Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (2016-2017). “Ballot Design and Voter Behavior”

Rice University Social Science Research Institute. Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (2016-2017). “Ballot Design and Voter Behavior”.Fulbright Doctoral Scholarship (2011-2013).

Fulbright Doctoral Fellowship, 2011-2013.

CONICET—National Council of Scientific and Technological Research. Research Fellowship (2005-2009). Electoral and Legislative Studies Program at Universidad Di Tella.

Travel grants

University of Texas at Austin, Dept. of Government (2025). Election Law Reform in Argentina.

National Democratic Institute (2023). International Forum on Democratic Resilience, Peru.

National Endowment for Democracy (2018). International Symposium on Democratic Transfers of Executive Power, Montreal.

Reed College / Portland State University (2017). Election Sciences, Reform & Administration Conference.

American Political Science Association (2017). Graduate Travel Grant.

Visions in Methodology Workshop, Univ. of Kentucky (2015).

University of Houston (2014). Empirical Implications of Theoretical Modeling (EITM).

University of Tampere (2012). Dictatorship and Democracy. Organized by University of Tampere, Finland.

Advocacy grants

Youth, political participation and representation (2021-2022). Granted by Unicef.

Online Gender Political Violence (2022). Granted by la National Institute for Democracy. 

Procedimental Justice and Legitimacy (2020-2022). Granted by the National Endowment for Democracy.

Electoral Analysis Project for the generation of information on elections at the provincial and national level in Argentina (2019-2021). Granted by the Political Affairs Secretariat of the Interior´s National Ministry.

Covid -19 and SDG 16: Emerging trends on pace, justice and inclusion in Latin America (2021). Otorgado por Southern Voice and The Oslo Governance Center. 

Remote Congress. The Analysis of the remotes sessions in the National Chamber of Representatives (2021). Granted by the Modernization Direction of the Chamber of Deputies.

Implementation of the informed voting button on Facebook and Instagram for elections in Argentina (2019-2021). Granted by Facebook and the National Electoral Chamber of Argentina. 

Digital citizenship training program (2019-2021). Granted by Facebook.

Elections 2021 in Argentina. The challenges of disinformation to democratic integrity (2020). Granted by the National Democratic Institute.

Parliamentary experience exchange program (2020). Granted by the Delegation of the European Union to Argentina.

Congresses and parties in Latin America. The before and after pandemic (2020). Granted by the National Democratic Institute. 

Elections in Pandemic (2020). Granted by IDEA International. 

Modernization and hierarchization of the National Congress (2019). Granted by the National Chamber of Deputies´ Modernization Program.