Dr. Fabricio Vasselai

Biography

Fabricio Vasselai is an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, specializing in Quantitative Methods. He holds a Dual PhD from the University of Michigan in Political Science and Scientific Computing. His research focuses on using computational tools to study elections and the threats to election integrity from a comparative perspective. This includes projects that utilize Machine Learning, Geospatial Analysis, Computational Game Theory, and Bayesian Estimation. He refers to his research as Computational Electoral Studies. While at the University of Michigan, he was a researcher at the Center for Complex Systems in Political Studies and developed a novel dataset of high-resolution GIS maps that document the boundaries of electoral districts used globally, currently covering 1341 elections in 164 countries. Prior to his move to the U.S., he served as a visiting researcher at Åbo Akademi University in Finland and was awarded by the European Union Coimbra Group Universities, as well as being a visiting researcher at the Juan March Foundation in Spain, where he received the Fundación Carolina award. He is a proud alumnus of Brazil’s University of São Paulo.

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