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The University of Exeter and Tsinghua University have launched a jointly-awarded PhD degree programme in climate and environmental sciences which supports six students to be co-supervised between Tsinghua's Department of Earth System Science and Colleges at Exeter that conduct research on earth systems and environmental sciences. Read more.

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Exeter & Paris-Saclay collaboratively deliver a series of double PhD degree projects. The universities offer joint funding to provide tuition, living, travel and research costs, and the opportunity to obtain two PhD awards from both Exeter and Paris-Saclay.

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The University of Exeter has extended its partnership with Duke University through a new collaborative agreement to work together to tackle some of the most pressing global challenges. These are Investing in Health; Sustainability and the Environment; Public Policy and Global Security; Digital Worlds – Approaches to Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Computational Social Sciences.

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About me:

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.

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

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.

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