Master of International Affairs

School of Global Policy and Strategy
University of California, San Diego
2016

• Chosen as a Dean’s Fellow for academic excellence, student leadership and community involvement;
• Awarded US$ 55,000 in scholarships and over US$10,000 in research grants;
• Research assistant for prof. David Mares, Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies, helping develop the Brazilian Portuguese lexicon and sources for a computer model that predicts the outbreak of diseases or social unrest;
• Research assistant for prof. Simeon Nichter, Political Science, helping to translate and thing about an experiment to measure clientelism;
• Research assistant for prof. Jennifer Burney, GPS, developing a strategy to measure adaptation to climate change in the northeast of Brazil using survey data an land-cover GIS data;
• Co-founder of the Francophone Club;
• One of the leaders of Baja Project, offering development consultancy to a small fishing village in rural Mexico.

B.A. in International Relations

Instituto de Relações Internacionais
Universidade de Brasília
2013

• Awarded a scholarship to a federal government-funded top-level student program;
• Worked as a research assistant to Ana Flávia Barros-Platiau, Ph.D., for over two years;
• Organized and self-published an academic book with scientific production from undergraduate peers;
• First place in the whole university in the exchange program, studied economics for a semester at the University of Stockholm, Sweden.

Languages: Portuguese (Native), English (Fluent), Spanish (Fluent), French (Working proficiency), Swedish (Beginner), Arabic (Beginner), Latin (Reads and writes well).

Technical skills: Excel (++++), Stata (+++), TeX (+++), ArcGIS (++), R (+)