Interests and expertise
I am a DPhil student in Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford and a Research Assistant with the Oxford Martin School’s Agile Initiative, contributing to the sprint on deforestation and the UK food system. My research focuses on transboundary water governance in the Amazon Basin, examining how water—understood as a borderless and multi-scalar connector—is negotiated and mediated across territorially bounded systems, particularly in frontier and borderland contexts. My current empirical focus is the Acre River Basin, a tri-border region shared by Bolivia, Brazil, and Peru, through which I examine how these dynamics unfold in practice.
Within the Agile Initiative, I contribute to research on the forest–food nexus, analysing how forest-related actions in producer countries shape agricultural production, trade stability, and food-system resilience in the UK, with a focus on soy in Brazil and cocoa in Ghana. More broadly, I am interested in the intersections between water, climate, land use, and governance, and in how interdisciplinary and data-informed approaches can support more integrated and equitable environmental decision-making.
Background
My background is in Environmental Management (University of São Paulo – USP, Brazil and Indiana University Bloomington, USA), with an MSc in Water Science, Policy and Management (University of Oxford, UK), and an MBA in Data Science (USP). My work focuses on the interface between science, policy, and practice in water and climate governance.
Prior to my DPhil, I worked at the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) in Bogotá, Colombia for six years, contributing to interdisciplinary research and environmental governance across Latin America. My work combined participatory and data-informed approaches to water and sanitation, climate, and ecosystem services, with gender and social equity as cross-cutting dimensions across different countries and geographies in Latin America, including the Amazon Basin, the Bolivian Andes, the Colombian Coffee Region, and Brazil’s Atlantic Forest.