Tainá Garcia Maia is a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Human Rights Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU CHREN), where she develops her research on the use of equality as a tool for the judicialization of poverty through a comparative study of the practice of Latin American apex courts. Other research areas in her postdoctoral research include democracy and autocratization, inequality and social stratification, and human rights and technology. Dr. Garcia Maia finalized her PhD in Law summa cum laude in 2023 at the University of Münster and the Federal University of Minas Gerais, writing her PhD thesis on the interconnections between poverty and inequality with Brazil as her case study. She has a Master’s degree in the Theory and Practice of Human Rights from the University of Oslo and was granted a Fritt Ord Student Scholarship for her Master’s thesis. Before joining CHREN, Dr. Garcia Maia worked as a research fellow at the University of Münster on the ERC-Consolidator Grant project “Correcting Inequality through Law”. She has also worked as a visiting scholar at the Brazilian Supreme Court, a visiting professional at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, and a special adviser at the Permanent Mission of Brazil to the United Nations in New York.