About Me
Who am I?
I research how digital infrastructures, from ride-hailing platforms to generative AI, reshape governance by changing who has authority, how knowledge is produced, and how decisions are made.
As a Lecturer at the Transdisciplinary School, University of Technology Sydney, and Chair of the TD School AI Working Group, I study how platforms and AI systems transform institutions across government, workplaces, universities, and urban contexts. My work sits in socio-technical governance: I examine how rules, accountability, judgement, and coordination are reorganised when formal systems no longer fit social and technological reality.
My earlier research in Latin America examined platform drivers who built autonomous systems of coordination using appropriated technologies when both the state and corporate platforms failed them. I describe these arrangements as “creole platforms”: hybrid socio-technical systems built from below by communities navigating institutional voids, regulatory uncertainty, and contested infrastructures.
I now extend this institutional lens to generative AI. My current work examines how large language models participate in organisational decision-making, public administration, research, and knowledge work. I am particularly interested in what happens when AI makes knowledge cheap to produce but harder to judge, verify, and govern.
Methodologically, I develop approaches for studying AI in context, including temporal-contextual probing: a way of examining how AI systems respond to situated, time-dependent decisions and changing institutional conditions. Across my work, I aim to connect academic research with policy, public-sector, and practitioner communities working on platform governance, AI governance, and institutional design.
A bit more
I work across Spanish, English, French, Portuguese and Hebrew. This multilingual background shapes how I approach governance questions: I am attentive to how institutions, concepts, technologies, and rules travel across contexts, and to what gets lost, distorted, or reinvented when they do.
I hold a PhD in Governance from the University of Technology Sydney, where my doctoral research examined platform governance, informal institutions, and socio-technical systems through the case of ride-hailing drivers in Bogotá, Colombia. Before that, I trained as an architect at the University of Belgrano and completed an MSc in Urban Economics at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, both in Buenos Aires. I also worked in policy roles in Argentina’s federal government. That experience grounds my research in the practical realities of how institutions work, fail, adapt, and are redesigned.
My trajectory, from architecture to urban economics to platform and AI governance, reflects a sustained interest in how humans build systems for organising collective life. I began with physical and urban systems, moved into institutions and platforms, and now study AI-mediated knowledge systems. Across these domains, I ask how designed systems produce order, redistribute authority, and create consequences their designers do not always anticipate.
I think in terms of infrastructures: physical, institutional, economic, digital, and epistemic.
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