CV
CV
Education
- PhD in Social Ecology, University of California, Irvine — 09/2017–03/2022. Degree conferred 18 March 2022. GPA 3.95/4.0.
- MA in Social Ecology, University of California, Irvine — 09/2017–12/2020. GPA 3.95/4.0.
- International Executive MBA, Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Brasília — 2006–2007.
- BS in Economic Sciences, Universidade de Brasília — 03/1999–06/2003.
- Graduate Certificate in Business, Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Brasília — 2002.
Honors and awards
- Best Pitch, Digital Transformation for Sustainability, ITU and UNU-MERIT, 2024
- Outstanding Student Paper Award, American Society of Criminology, 2022
- Graduate Division Completion Fellowship, UCI, 2021
- School of Social Ecology Merit-based Award, UCI, 2019–2023
- Miguel Velez Fellowship, 2019 and 2021
- Master of Public Policy Fellowship, 2017
Certifications
Digital Transformation for Sustainability (ITU / UNU-MERIT, 2024) · UCI Mentoring Excellence Program (2021) · PRINCE2 Practitioner (2014) · Global Change Agents, Harvard University (2012) · ITIL Foundation (2011) · COBIT Foundation (2011) · Project Management Professional, PMP (2004)
Professional and voluntary service
- Member, Fraud Research Group, Aston University — 2026–present
- Subject Matter Expert, IRU Working Group 5: Intergenerational Procurement for People-Centred Cities — 2026–present
- Contributor, U4SSC Digital Development Goals — 2025–present
- Reviewer, Journal of White Collar and Corporate Crime — 2025–present
- Reviewer, Academia against Corruption in the Americas — 2025–present
- Scientific and Editorial Board, Scientia et Ratio Magazine — 2024–present
- Fiscal Council, Project Management Institute, DF Chapter — 2005–2008
Research experience
Center for the Study of Democracy Fellow, University of California, Irvine — 2019–2021
Automated transcription and text analysis of US state committee hearings on electronic nicotine delivery systems, with Dr. Graeme Boushey. Built a reproducible pipeline for roughly 100,000 minutes of audio and video, with human and hybrid benchmarks, batch speech-to-text processing, confidence scoring, speaker identification and structural topic modeling.
Campus Summer Intern, University of California, Irvine — 2018
Drought resiliency in California using econometric methods, with Dr. Maura Allaire.