Dr. Thiago Nascimento da Silva is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Politics and International Relations at ANU, where he also serves as Convenor of SPIR's Honours Program. He is Deputy Director of the Australian Centre for Federalism, co-chair of APSA's Quantitative Methods Group, and a Committee Member of the Australian Society for Quantitative Political Science (ASQPS). His research focuses on comparative politics, particularly political institutions and political economy.