Welcome to my webpage,

I am an Assistant Professor at the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA) at Indiana University Bloomington.  

I am an environmental and natural resource economist who studies how property rights and institutions shape land and water use, with implications for conservation, public health, and economic development in Brazil, India, and the United States. 

My research and teaching focus on the intersection of environmental economics and informatics . By combining causal inference, satellite data, and economic theory, I aim to contribute to evidence-based insights to inform policies that balance growth, equity, and sustainability.

I also have affiliations with  the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and Dhar India Studies Program at the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies at Indiana University Bloomington.

Before joining Indiana University’s O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, I was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. I earned my Ph.D. from Virginia Tech, with prior training in Development Economics (Brazil) and Mechanical Engineering (India).