Overview

I am an environment and development economist. My research subjects embrace the sustainable development of the Brazilian Amazon and sustainable food production in the UK. Methodologically, I am concerned both with structural mechanisms and accurate causal empirical evidence.

Qualifications

29/05/2013: Ph.D. in Development Economics, University of São Paulo, Brazil, Aug 2010-May 2013

18/11/2009: M.Sc., Economics, University of São Paulo, Jan 2007-Nov 2009

31/12/2006: B.Sc., Economics, University of São Paulo, Jan 2003-Dec 2006

Career

• July 2023 to September 2025: Postdoctoral research fellow, Land, Environment, Economics and Policy Institute, University of Exeter, 2014-present: Associate professor, Federal University of ABC, São Paulo state, Brazil
• March 2022 to February 2025: Grantholder and principal investigator of the project “Agri-environmental policy for the sustainable development of Amazon in the XXI century”. Research productivity grant. Funder: Brazilian National Council of Scientific and Technological Development.
• September 2017 to May 2018: Research visitor in the Land, Environment, Economics and Policy Institute, College of Social Sciences and International Studies at the University of Exeter, England, UK. Research Fellowship Abroad. Funded by the São Paulo Research Foundation, FAPESP.
• July 2014 to September 2014: Research visitor in the Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, England, UK. Funded by Darwin Initiative Fellowship, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), UK.
• October 2011 to October 2013: Grantholder of the Latin American and Caribbean Environmental Economics Program (LACEEP).
• September 2012 to October 2012 and June 2013. PhD student visitor in the Centre for the Management of Renewable Resources and the Environment (GREEN), CIRAD, Montpellier, France.

Links

• Brazilian Research Council CV
• Google Scholar Website
• Personal website

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Research

Research interests

Sustainable food production in the UK

Sustainable development of the Brazilian Amazon

Economics of fires in the Amazon

Agricultural pollution: impact assessment with GIS and econometrics

Agri-environmental policy design and evaluation

Research projects

• 2022-2023, UK Sustainable King Prawn Project, Funder: UKRI, Transforming UK Food Systems Program. Principal Investigator: Rod Wilson (University of Exeter Biosciences)
• 01/04/2022-30/04/2025 “Forest citizenship for disaster resilience: learning from COVID-19”. Funder: Trans-Atlantic Platform (T-AP) for the Social Sciences and Humanities, specifically the ESRC (UK), NSF (USA) and FAPESP (São Paulo, Brazil). PI: Luke Parry, Lancaster University, UK.
• 01/03/2022-28/02/2025 “Agri-environmental policy for the sustainable development of Amazon in the XXI century”. Research productivity grant. PI: Thiago Morello. Funder: Brazilian National Council of Scientific and Technological Development. Value: €7,600.
• 01/10/2019-30/09/2021 “Agri-environmental policy and agricultural fires in the Amazon: an economic analysis”. Regular research grant. PI: Thiago Morello. Funder: São Paulo State Research Foundation (FAPESP). Value: €22,000. Co-investigators: Demerval Moreira (Physicist), Liana Anderson (Biologist and geographer), Sonaira Silva (agronomist), Rubicleis Silva (economist), Claudia Heck (economist), Leonela Silva (economist).
• 01/09/2017-31/05/2018, Research Grant Abroad on land use policy for Amazon. Host institution: College of Social Sciences and International Studies, University of Exeter. Funder: FAPESP.
• 02/07/2014-31/07/2015: Darwin Initiative Fellowship on Fire Prevention and Control in the Brazilian Amazon. Host institution: Lancaster Environment Centre. University of Lancaster, UK. Funder: Defra/UK.
• 06/09/2022-30/02/2025 “MaPeixe – Digitizing and integrating the Amazon fish chain”. Funder: Brazilian National Council of Scientific and Technological Development (Call CNPq/MCTI/SEMPI Nº 021/2021). PI: Petterson Vale (director of the “MaPeixe” aquaculture remote sensing start-up). Universities involved: University of Perugia (Italy), University of California in San Diego, Cornell University, Federal University of ABC.
• 01/06/2019-31/05/2022 “Multi-Actor Adaptation Plan to cope with Forests under Increasing Risk of Extensive fires (MAP-FIRE).” Funding Agency: Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI), process: SGP-HW 016. PI: Liana Anderson, Brazilian National Centre for Monitoring and Early Warning of Natural Disasters. Institutions involved: Brazilian National Space Research Institute, Federal University of Acre (Brazil), Federal University of ABC (Brazil), and Bolivian and Peruvian NGOs (Herencia and Cincia).
• 17/12/2018-31/12/2021 “Forest fires and agricultural fires in Acre, Brazil: an analysis of the extension, degradation level and future scenarios”. Funder: Brazilian National Council of Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq-Prevfogo). PI: Sonaira Silva, Federal University of Acre state, Brazil.

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Publications

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