Tainá Garcia Maia is a postdoctoral researcher at the Human Rights Center Erlangen Nürnberg of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU CHREN). She has a PhD in Law (summa cum laude) finalized in 2023 at the University of Münster and at the Federal University of Minas Gerais.
She has a Master’s degree in the Theory and Practice of Human Rights from the University of Oslo. Dr. Garcia Maia has worked as a researcher at the University of Münster, on the ERC-Consolidator Grant project “Correcting Inequality through Law”, as a visiting scholar at the Brazilian Supreme Court, a visiting professional at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, and as special adviser at the Permanent Mission of Brazil at the United Nations in New York.