Full Professor of the Department of Social and Political Sciences of Universidad del Pacífico and Researcher at CIUP. She is a Ph.D. and M.A. in Political Science (Government) from the University of Texas in Austin (United States), and a Bachelor of Social Sciences with a major in Sociology from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. She is the author of the book Buying Audiences. Clientelism and Electoral Campaigns When Parties are Weak (Cambridge University Press, 2019) and co-author of Prosecutors, Voters, and the Criminalisation of Corruption in Latin America (Cambridge University Press, 2023). She has various publications in journals such as Comparative Politics, Governance, Revista de Ciencia Política, Journal of Democracy. Between January and March 2019, she was a Member of the Consultative Commission called "High Level Commission for Political Reform", oriented to propose the norms oriented for the implementation of political reform in Peru. She is a member of the Network of Political Scientists #NoSinMujeres.