Education

• Ph.D. Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2018

• B.Sc. Economics, University of São Paulo, 2010

Fields of Concentration

• Environmental Economics, Input-Output Analysis, Regional Economics, Economics of Natural Disasters

Publications

1. Avelino, A., Lamers, P., Zhang, Y., and Chum, H. (2021). Creating a Harmonized Time-Series of Environmentally-Extended Input-Output Tables to Assess the Evolution of the U.S. bioeconomy: A retrospective analysis of corn ethanol and soybean biodiesel, Journal of Cleaner Production, 321, 1-13. DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.128890

2. Avelino, A., Carrascal, A., and Franco, A. (2021). Revisiting the Temporal Leontief Inverse: New Insights on the Analysis of Regional Technological Change, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 59, 79-89. DOI: 10.1016/j.strueco.2021.07.005

3. Singh, A., Rorrer, N., Nicholson, S., Erickson, E., DesVeaux, J., Avelino, A., Lamers, P., Bhatt, A., Zhang, Y., Avery, G., Wu, C., Tao, L., Pickford, A., Carpenter, A., McGeehan, J., and Beckham, G. (2021) Techno-economic, life cycle, and socio-economic impact analysis of enzymatic recycling of poly(ethylene terephthalate), Joule, 5(9), 2479-2503. DOI: 10.1016/j.joule.2021.06.015

4. Lamers, P., Avelino, A., Zhang, Y., Tan, E., Young, B., Vendries, J. and Chum, E. (2021) Potential Socioeconomic and Environmental Effects of an Expanding U.S. Bioeconomy: An Assessment of Near-Commercial Cellulosic Biofuel Pathways, Environmental Science & Technology, 55(8), 5496-5505. DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.0c08449

5. Avelino, A., and Dall’erba, S. (2020) What Factors Drive the Changes in Water Withdrawals in the U.S. Agriculture and Food Manufacturing Industries between 1995 and 2010?, Environmental Science & Technology, 54(17), 10421-10434. DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.9b07071

6. Gerveni, M., Avelino, A., and Dall’erba, S. (2020) Drivers of Water Use in the Agricultural Sector of the European Union 27, Environmental Science & Technology, 54(15), 9191-9199. DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.9b06662

7. Franco, A., Avelino, A., and Carrascal, A. (2020). The Evolution of Household-induced Value Chains and Their Environmental Implications, Ecological Economics, 174, 1-18. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2020.106667

8. Bermejo, F., Febrero, E., and Avelino, A. (2020). Socioeconomic Effects of Pension Spending: Evidence from Spain, International Journal of Social Economics, 47(5), 599-617. DOI: 10.1108/IJSE-01-2019-0047

9. Avelino, A., and Hewings, G. (2019). The Challenge of Estimating the Impact of Disasters: Many Approaches, Many Limitations and a Compromise. In Y. Okuyama and A. Rose (Eds.), Advances in Spatial and Economic Modeling of Disaster Impacts (pp. 163-189). Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-16237-5_7.

10. Avelino, A., and Dall’erba, S. (2019). Comparing the economic impact of natural disasters generated by different input-output models. An application to the 2007 Chehalis River Flood (WA), Risk Analysis, 39(1), 85-104. DOI: 10.1111/risa.13006

11. Dominguez, F., Dall’erba, S., Huang, S., Avelino, A., Mehran, A., Hu, H., Schmidt, A., Schick, L., and Lettenmaier, D. (2018). Tracking an Atmospheric River in a Warmer Climate: from Water Vapor to Economic Impacts, Earth System Dynamics, 9(1), 249-266. DOI: 10.5194/esd-9-249-2018

12. Avelino, A. (2017). Disaggregating Input-Output Tables in Time: the Temporal Input-Output Framework, Economic Systems Research, 29(3), 313-334. DOI: 10.1080/09535314.2017.1290587

13. Carrascal, A., Avelino, A., and Franco, A. (2017). Gray Water and Environmental Externalities: International Patterns of Water Pollution through a Structural Decomposition Analysis, Journal of Cleaner Production, 165, 1174-1187. DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.07.200

14. Avelino, A., Baylis, K., and Honey-Rosés, J. (2016). Goldilocks and the Raster Grid: Selecting Scale when Evaluating Conservation Programs, PLoS One, 11(12), e0167945. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0167945

Articles in Review and Working Papers

1. Gao, X., Dall’erba, S., Ellison, B., Avelino, A., and Yang, C. When One Cannot Bypass the Byproducts: Plastic Packaging Waste Embedded in Production and Export. (revise and resubmit to Journal of Industrial Ecology)

2. Avelino, A. The Seasonal Structure of the US Economy: estimation of interindustrial linkages at national, state and county levels. (preparing for submission)

3. Avelino, A., Hewings, G., and Guilhoto, J. A Social-Environmental Regional Sequential Interindustry Economic Model for Energy Planning: Evaluating the Impacts of New Power Plants in Brazil.

Research In Progress

• “Sustainable Global Production in a 9 Billion People World: A Nonlinear Extended World Trade Model” with André Carrascal Incera

• “Now Hiring: Seasonal Labor Requirements through a Quarterly Input-Output model” with André Carrascal Incera, Alberto Franco Solís and Diana Gutierrez

• “Can the Urban Sprawl of Madrid affect the Spanish National Economic Structure? A Multi-region, Multi-sectoral Perspective” with Fernando Rubiera Morollón and Fernando Bermejo Patón

Teaching Experience

• Spring 2019 ACE-161: Microcomputer Applications - Lecturer (*ranked as excellent by students)

• Fall 2018 ACE-161: Microcomputer Applications - Lecturer (*ranked as excellent by students)

• Spring 2018 ECON-590: Regional Economics – Guest Lecturer (3 lectures)

• Fall 2017 ACE-251: The World Food Economy – Teaching Assistant (responsible for teaching 2 weekly discussion sections of 25 students each, grading and mentoring)

• Spring 2017 ECON-590: Regional Economics – Guest Lecturer (3 lectures)

Relevant Work Experience

• 2020 Researcher III at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

• 2019-2020 Post-Doctoral Researcher at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

• 2018-2019 Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics (UIUC). "Global Virtual Water Trade: Unraveling complexity in the international food-water nexus and identifying impacts of climate change"

• 2016-2018 Research Assistant at UIUC for Dr. Geoffrey J. D. Hewings. “Modeling Unexpected Events: Impact Assessment and Strategic Recovery Planning” (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Institute for Water Resources)

• 2015-2016 Research Assistant at UIUC for Dr. Sandy Dall’erba. “Atmospheric Rivers and Changing Flood Risk in the Pacific Coast Region of the Western United States” (NASA – NSPIRES NNX14AD77G)

• 2013-2015 Research Assistant, Smart Energy Design Assistant Center (SEDAC), UIUC

• 2008-2009 Intern, A.C. Pastore & Associados (Applied Macroeconomics Consulting Firm)

• 2007-2010 Research Assistant, Nuclear and Energy Research Institute (IPEN), University of São Paulo (USP)

• 2006-2007 Research Assistant, Integrated Program for Applied Human Nutrition (PRINUTHA), University of São Paulo (USP)

Awards, Scholarships and Honors

• 2018 Outstanding PhD Student, Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics

• 2018 Academic Excellence Award, University of Illinois Graduate College

• 2017 Philip R. Israilevich Distinguished Research Fellow, REAL

• 2011-2013 Lemann Institute for Brazilian Studies Fellowship, University of Illinois

• 2010 Best Paper Award, VII Brazilian Congress on Energy Planning

• 2010-2011 Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development Scholarship

• 2010-2010 Global Talent Development for Sustainable Agricultural & Environ. Sciences Fields

• 2007-2008 Culture and Extension Fund Scholarship, University of São Paulo

Other Information

Affiliations: International Input-Output Association; Regional Science Association International; Agricultural and Applied Economics Association

Journal Referee: Regional Science, Policy & Practice; Journal of Economic & Social Geography; Economic Systems Research; Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science; Canadian Journal of Economics

Languages: English (Fluent), Portuguese (Native), Spanish (Intermediary)

Software proficiency: Matlab, R, GAMS, LaTeX, Pascal, Java, C, Visual Basic, VBA, SQL, ArcGIS, HAZUS