Hi, Hej, Olá!

My name is Luiza, and I am a Postdoctoral researcher at Copenhagen University (Department of Food and Resource Economics, Section for Environment and Natural Resources). I hold a Ph.D in Environmental Economics from Aarhus University (DK), a Msc in Environmental and Resource Economics from the University of Copenhagen (DK) and a Bsc in Economic Sciences from the University of São Paulo (BR).

I work with a wide range of microeconomics methods applied to environmental and natural resource economics topics, including optimization modeling, applied microeconometrics and, more recently, behavioral and experimental economics.

As a postdoc, I am working on the EU horizon project INTERCEDE. The objective of the project is to research approaches to incentivize provision of Ecosystem Services from European forests, with particular focus on market based instruments. My contract with INTERCEDE is until 2027. I am working mainly on WP4 of the project, looking into the effectiveness of PES schemes for forestry ecosystem services in Europe.

In my PhD, I studied policy instruments and the economics of soil carbon sequestration, with emphasis on the transaction costs that arise from measures and policies targeting nature-based carbon sequestration (in forestry and agriculture). During my PhD studies, I also conducted work on a separate working paper, titled "Forest Protection and Human Health: The Case of Malaria in the Brazilian Amazon", which was my job market paper. In the study, I analyze a quasi-experiment involving two forest protection policies for the Brazilian Amazon region and their consequences for malaria incidence, as well as the mechanisms behind.

My research interests lie broadly in public policy analysis and design, both in developing contexts and in a European setting. Lately, I have been very interesting in investigating challenges to the voluntary adoption of policies such as payments for ecosystem services. My long term research goal is to conducting scientifically relevant research with direct policymaking implications, within environmental economics.