About
Hi, I am Yulieth — a political scientist, international politics researcher, data enthusiast, and passionate about computational social science.
I was born in Santa Marta, the oldest American city and a vibrant Caribbean town in northern Colombia. My academic journey has taken me from Colombia to Brazil, where I earned my Ph.D. in Political Science at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, and then to Germany, where I was visiting researcher at the Research Group for International Politics at the University of Konstanz.
My research focuses on the intersection of international relations and emergency studies. I use a comparative regionalism approach and a multi-method design, blending qualitative insights with computational techniques such as PCA, clustering, NLP, and large language models. In my doctoral work, I explored how Regional Integration Organizations respond to transboundary emergencies and developed the Emergency Measures Index (EMI) to assess institutional responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Beyond emergency politics, I am deeply interested in regional integration, international institutions, gender, conflict, and comparative studies. I love working with both qualitative and quantitative methods and am always exploring new analytical tools to enrich my work.
You can find more information about my academic trajectory in the following sections.