About me

Some background

My choice to do a PhD was driven by my desire to do policy-relevant research.
I grew up German-Brazilian, and was naturalized American as an adult.
I speak English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and German fluently. I teach in both English and French, and my work in Colombia is mostly in Spanish.
My pronouns are she/her.

Research

The bulk of my research lies in an impact evaluation in Colombia to quantify the benefits of adding soft skills training to vocational education for young adults affected by the civil war. This has been a great opportunity to conduct a field experiment from start to finish. Together with my colleagues and co-authors, we raised $64,000 for this impact evaluation and the project, including the SDC-NADEL Impact Award in 2020, the HEC Research Fund or 2018, and the E4S COVID-19 grant in 2020.

Institutional activities

I was a PhD representative for my department, along with Pascal Meichtry, from 2019-2021. With my co-representative, we made sure that the concerns of PhD students in our department were addressed, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.
I co-founded Rare Voices in Economics in February 2020 (then known as Women in Economics Léman) with Laura Nowzohour (IHEID) and Federica Braccioli (UniGE), to work on making the economics profession more inclusive and equitable.

Software Skills

For statistical modelling, I use Stata and R. I know how to do some web scrapping with Python.

Previously

Previous work

World Bank - Climate Investment Funds

From 2014-2016, I worked at the Climate Investment Funds, specifically at the Forest Investment Program (FIP) and the Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR).

UN Environment

From 2013-2014, I held a six-month internship at the UN Environment Programme’s The Economics of the Environment and Biodiversity (TEEB).

Previous education

B.Sc. Georgetown University 2012

I have a Bachelor’s degree in Science, Technology, and International Affairs with a focus on Energy and the Environment from Georgetown University.

M.Sc. London School of Economics 2013

I have a Master’s degree in Environmental Policy and Regulation from the London School of Economics.

M.Sc. HEC Lausanne 2016

I also have a Master's degree in Political Economics from the Faculty of Business and Economics of the University of Lausanne.

Other

Statistics doodles

I am passionate about science communication. For that reason, I am working on making statistics more accessible via comics. This is an ongoing and evolving project.

The example here illustrates the ideas of false positives and false negatives, also known as Type I and Type II errors.

Sports, Animals, and Others

I ran the Lausanne Marathon 2018, and I continue to run one or two half marathons per year. I ran the Nyon Sprint Triathlon in 2016.
I play the Western concert flute and was a student at the conservatory of Poissy from 2004-2008.
Click here for my Goodreads reading lists.
I have a five-year-old dog, a Weimaraner/Vizsla mix. She was a model for an OMEGA watch ad in 2019.