Dr Juliana Santos de Carvalho

Juliana holds a doctorate in International Law with a minor in International Relations & Political Science from the Geneva Graduate Institute, having graduated summa cum laude with a special commendation by the jury. During her doctoral studies, she was also a Visiting Research Student at SOAS School of Law, Gender and Media. Prior to her doctorate, she earned an LLM in Law and Politics of International Security at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and an LLB at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte.

Prior to joining POLIS at Cambridge, Juliana was a Lecturer in Law at the Transnational Legal Studies department of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She also worked as an Applied Research Assistant to the Gender, Race, and Diversity Track of the Interdisciplinary Programs of the Geneva Graduate Institute from 2022 to 2023. From 2020 to 2022, she was a research assistant to the project “Diversity on the International Bench: Building Legitimacy for International Courts and Tribunals”, housed at the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy of the Geneva Graduate Institute. She was a project assistant to the Institute for Societal Resilience of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam from 2018 to 2019, and contributed as a research associate to the Netherlands Office of the Public International Law and Policy Group from 2017 to 2018. She is a member of the Brazilian Bar Association since 2017.

Juliana has earned several excellency scholarships and grants during her academic trajectory, including the Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship for Foreign Scholars, the Doc.mobility grant from swissuniversities, and the Vrije Universiteit Fellowship Programme.