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

I am an environmental economist studying how property rights, institutions, and environmental policies shape land and water use, with implications for conservation, public health, and economic development in Brazil, India, and the United States. My research combines causal inference, satellite and spatial data, and economic theory to evaluate environmental governance, deforestation, water pollution, groundwater depletion, and climate adaptation.

My teaching and research interests lie at the intersection of environmental economics, development economics, and spatial data science. I am particularly interested in how evidence-based policy can balance economic growth, environmental sustainability, and equity.

I am a faculty affiliate of the Ostrom Workshop and affiliated with the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the Dhar India Studies Program at the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies at Indiana University Bloomington.

Before joining Indiana University, I was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. I received my Ph.D. from Virginia Tech and also have prior training in development economics (from Brazil) and mechanical engineering (from India).