I'm a professor at Economics Department of the Catholic University of Brasília and Economist at the Brazilian Federal Prosecution Service.

I hold a Ph.D. in Economics from the Federal University of Pernambuco and am currently a Visiting Scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. 

I serve as Associate Editor of EconomiA, am a member of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI), and hold a Research Productivity Fellowship from the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). 

I'm an applied economist specializing in regional and urban economics. My current research focuses on the economic causes and consequences of natural disasters and the forces shaping urbanization in Brazilian cities, integrating causal inference and spatial data analysis with insights from geography and environmental science.