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 mainly 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 on WP3, WP4 and WP5 of the project, looking into the effectiveness of PES schemes for forestry ecosystem services in Europe.

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.