Besides InternetLab’s Associate Director, Mariana is an assistant professor with a tenure track at the University of Saint Gallen, Switzerland. She is a lawyer and holds a Ph.D., a master’s degree and a bachelor’s from the University of São Paulo Law School in the area of sociology of law. She did part of her Ph.D. as a visiting researcher at UC Berkeley, researching international aspects of intellectual property law. She was also a DAAD fellow at LMU in Munich, a participant in the Linkage Program at Yale University, and a student at the WIPO Summer School.

Mariana is dedicated to researching the relations between technology and society, regulation of the digital economy, and fundamental rights in the online environment. She has experience in equity policies, gender equality and violence, access to knowledge, culture and education, intellectual property, the impact of technologies on democracy and social mobilization, and data justice issues.

She is also a researcher at CEBRAP’s Law and Democracy Nucleus. Before joining and directing InternetLab, she was a researcher and professor at the Center for Technology and Society at Fundação Getúlio Vargas, and legal coordinator at the Museum of Modern Art in São Paulo. Between 2019 and 2021, she coordinated Creative Commons Brazil and worked on strengthening its national network. Before becoming a professor in the University of Saint Gallen, Mariana was also a professor at Insper, where she taught undergraduate courses for business and economics students and conceived and coordinated the Certification in Law and Technology in Executive Education.