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 was a visiting scholar at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.  

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.