Last CV update: Fall 2025.

Current

Postdoctoral researcher  March 2025 — now,  Denmark

University of Copenhagen, Department of Food and Resource Economics, Section for Environment and Natural Resources

EU Horizon project INTERCEDE

External Lecturer  Dec 2024 — now,  Denmark

DIS Copenhagen

Courses: Environmental Economics B (spring/fall 2025); Brandeis Custom Environmental Economics (summer 2025)

Background

PhD in Environmental Economics  Dec 2021 — Sep 2025,  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 .

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

Previous 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.

Previous positions outside of academia (related to 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.

Previous positions outside of academia (not related to 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.  The organization conducts consultancies for NGOs, incubation for social enterprises and university events for getting the university community involved in volunteering. Unpaid position.

Academic References

1. Prof. Thomas Lundhede, Full Professor at University of Copenhagen (thlu@ifro.ku.dk)

2. Prof. Katarina Elofsson, Full Professor at Aarhus University (katarina.elofsson@envs.au.dk) 

3. Prof. Ariaster Chimeli, Full Professor at University of Sao Paulo (chimeli@usp.br)