Dr. Constanza Sanhueza Petrarca is a Research Fellow at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Research Associate with the V-Dem Institute and Associate Editor of Representation, a Journal of Representative Democracy.

She has worked at Sciences Po Paris, with the Electoral Integrity Project at the University of Sydney, and was a Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Mannheim. She also has designed and delivered various political science courses at the Universities of Mannheim, Oslo, Gothenburg, Humboldt in Berlin and Sciences Po Paris and worked as a consultant for different national and international organisations including the European Commission and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).