I am a post-doctoral researcher at the Cologne Center for Comparative Politics, University of Cologne. I hold a PhD in Political Science from the Central European University, and my research interests are on quantitative methods, more specifically causal inference, machine learning, and structural equation modeling. Substantively, I work on populism in comparative perspective, and social media in politics, and I'm leader of Text Analysis in Team Populism.
You can reach me by email at bcsilva@wiso.uni-koeln.de, or on Twitter @b_castanho.