Background
PhD Candidate Dec 2021 — now, Denmark
Aarhus University Department of Environmental Science, Section for Environmental social science and geography | iCLIMATE, Aarhus University Interdisciplinary Centre for Climate Change
Thesis: “Empirical Essays on Transaction Costs in Land Use Carbon Sequestration”
Supervisor: Professor Katarina Elofsson
Visiting researcher 2023 — 2024, Sweden
Swedish Agricultural University (SLU)
Guest at SLU's Economics Department, from November 2023 until January 2024. Hosted by environmental economics group head Professor Rob Hart
Msc in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics 2019 — 2021, Denmark
University of Copenhagen (KU)
Thesis: "Trade Openness and Deforestation - Effects of the China Shock and Soy Trade in Brazil"
Supervisor: Professor Max Nielsen
Bsc in Economic Sciences 2015 — 2018, Brazil
University of Sao Paulo (USP)
Thesis: " Deforestation and Malaria Incidence, evidence from Para, Brazil" *Excellence Award for writing best thesis of the economics department of 2018.
Supervisor: Professor Ariaster Chimeli
Research and academic teaching positions
Summer 2023 Lecturer at PhD summer school “Land use, carbon sequestration, and cost-effective climate policy”, at Aarhus University, Denmark. Environmental Economics, Microeconomics. Funded by PhD project.
Spring 2022 Teaching Assistant (TA) at the Department of Management and Economics, Msc level course environmental economics, at Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (DTU), Lyngby, Denmark. Environmental Economics. Paid position.
April 2020 - Jan 2021 Research Assistant at the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). Environmental Economics, Valuation. Paid position.
January 2019 – August 2019 Research Assistant at the Brazilian Women in Economics group of the University of Sao Paulo (BWE-USP), São Paulo, Brazil. Gender Economics, Microeconomics, Econometrics. Paid position.
Fall 2018 Teaching Assistant (TA) at the Department of Economics, Bsc level course environmental and natural resource economics, University of Sao Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil. Environmental Economics, Microeconomics. Paid position.
July 2016 – Dececember 2016 Research intern at the Department of Economics of the University of Sao Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil. Labour Economics. Paid position.
Positions outside of academia (related to climate or environmental economics)
2021 – 2022 Guest writer for Folha de Sao Paulo (Brazil’s largest newspaper), on topics relating to environmental and natural resource economics. Unpaid position.
2021 Volunteer writer at Climate Scorecard . Responsible for researching and writing reports relating to climate mitigation efforts in Brazil. Unpaid position.
Positions outside of academia (not related to climate or environmental economics)
2017 – 2018 Consulting Intern at SOF - Serviço de Orientação Financeira, a project from the University of São Paulo that helps society by giving personalized and free consultation about personal finances. Paid position.
2015 - 2017 Volunteer at FEA Social, a non-profit organization managed by Brazilian students from the university of São Paulo. Conducts consultancies for NGOs, incubation for social enterprises and university events for getting the university community involved in volunteering. Unpaid position.
Other Education
Summer school on Economic Foundations for Energy and Climate Policies (Florence School of Regulation, supported by the European Association of Environmental Economics - EAERE, Italy) - September 2022. Selected to present Working Paper at a student’s presentation section of the school. Funded by PhD project.
Summer School on Climate Change Economics (Paris School of Economics, France) - June 2022. Funded by Iclimate OH fund 2022.
Courses:
Causal Inference Week 2021: 25 hours (Worshop by PIMES/UFPE alongside Prof. Scott Cunningham, Baylor University)
Economics and the Environment – General Computing Equilibrium, 2016: 20 hours, with certificate (Instituto Escolhas in partnership with Nereus/USP)
Discovering the Oceans - Immediate Boarding, 2017: 8 hours, with certificate (Institute of Oceanography of the University of São Paulo - IO/USP)
Basic Marine Biology for Non-Biologists, 2016: 70 hours, with certificate (CEBIMAR USP - Marine Biology Research Center of the University of São Paulo) - February 2016.
Phd Class Education and economic development: advanced topics, 2020: Silent Participation as remote student (Prof. Alex Eble, Columbia University)
Academic References
1. Prof. Katarina Elofsson, Full Professor at Aarhus University (katarina.elofsson@envs.au.dk)
2. Prof. Ariaster Chimeli, Full Professor at University of Sao Paulo (chimeli@usp.br)
Published work
Termansen, Jacobs, Niamir. (2020). IPBES VA Chapter 3. Systematic PCIV (Principles, Criteria, Indicators, Verifiers) review on valuation methods. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6518815. Karpavicius is listed as a contributing author.
Elofsson, K., Karpavicius, L., Yan, S. (2023). A meta-analysis of transaction costs for projects to enhance carbon sequestration in land use and the potential implications in the Danish context (Scientific Report 577; p. 38). DCE – Danish Centre for Environment and Energy. https://dce.au.dk/fileadmin/dce.au.dk/Udgivelser/ Videnskabelige_rapporter_500-599/SR577.pdf
Participation in Conferences
Paper presentation at at parallel session of the annual conference of the European Association of Environmental Economics - EAERE (2024): “The role of transaction costs for the optimal supply of carbon sequestration from cover crops in Denmark”. Funded by PhD project.
Poster Presentation at the Economics of Low-Carbon Markets Workshop (2023): “The determinants of transaction costs for carbon sequestration projects”. Funded by PhD project.
Paper presentation at at parallel session of the annual conference of the European Association of Environmental Economics - EAERE (2023): “The determinants of transaction costs for carbon sequestration projects”. Funded by PhD project.
Paper presentation at the Fourth Nordic Annual Environmental and Resource Economics (NAERE) Workshop Conference: “Transaction Costs in Carbon Sequestration Mechanisms in Forestry/Agriculture”. Funded by PhD project.
Participation as attendee at the annual conference by the The Danish Environmental Economic Council - DØRS (2021). Funded by The Danish Environmental Economic Council, that offered a few spots in the conference for selected young researchers in Denmark.
Paper presentation at parallel session of the annual conference of the European Association of Environmental Economics - EAERE (2019): “Malaria Incidence and Deforestation: Evidence from Para, Brazil”. Funded by an Instituto Escolhas research grant.
Poster Presentation at the Economics of Low-Carbon Markets Workshop (2018): “Malaria Incidence and Deforestation: Evidence from Mahogany Occurrence in Municipalities of Para”.