CV

2021 - present

Postdoctoral Researcher

Water Resources Management Group/ Department of Environmental Sciences, Wageningen University, The Netherlands

Including a 1-month research fellowship at the Department of  Geography, University College London (UCL), UK - funded by a WUR mobility scholarship

2013   - 2020

Lecturer in Urban Planning, School of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Vale do Rio dos  Sinos (UNISINOS)/ Brazil (including break to complete PhD dissertation)

2019

PhD ‘Pathways for Transforming a Local Reality: A Social Learning Experience for Sustainability in the Lomba do Pinheiro Community—The Case of the Taquara Stream’

Graduate Program in Environmental Science (PROCAM), University of Sao Paulo (USP)/ Institute of Energy and Environment/ Brazil

Including a 9-month doctoral research stay at the Education and Learning Sciences Group, Department of Social Sciences, Wageningen University (WUR), The Netherlands

Pedro Roberto Jacobi (supervisor - USP), Arjen Wals (co-supervisor - WUR)

2012

Master ‘Green Corridors: A Framework for Their Planning in Small Brazilian Municipalities’

Department of Civil Engineering, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)/ Building Innovation Research Unit (NORIE)/ Brazil

Grantee of: Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico/ CNPq 

2025

• Conference presentation, XXVI International Conference of the Society for Human Ecology (SHE      Conference), Mons, Belgium (June 2025). ‘Introducing the Chorus of Singing Rivers – A Collaborative Sound Installation’.
• Plenary speaker, Riverhood & River Commons Seminar, Lusaka, Zambia (April 2025). ‘A Conversation about River Co-learning Arenas (RCAs) and Bridging Strategies’.
• Invited discussant, panel Infrastructures Hybrids: Examining Human/Other-than-Human Entanglements in a Climate Change World, CEDLA Talks – University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (May 2025).

2024

• Conference presentation, RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, London, UK (August 2024). Panel: What’s on (and off) the Map? Integrating Diverse Knowledges for Transformative Sustainability Outcomes. ‘Engaging with Onto-epistemological River Struggles through Counter-mapping’. 
• Invited talk, IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, Delft, Netherlands (September 2024).
  ‘Seeing Rivers Otherwise – Learning Through and With Critical Cartography’.
• Invited talk,  ICTA – Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain (December 2024).
  ‘Seeing Rivers Otherwise – Learning Through and With Critical Cartography’.
• Public talk, Speakers Corner – Impulse, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, Netherlands (November 2024). Contributions of Wageningen University to the Dutch Design Week 2024. ‘Rivers in Movement: Following the Voice of the People’.

2023

• Plenary speaker,  India River Week, Pune, India (December 2023). ‘Travelling Rivers’.
• External seminar,  University College London (UCL), Department of Geography, London, UK (September 2023). ‘Sustainability Transformations – The Role of Action Research’.
• Plenary speaker,   International Seminar - Rivers, Territories and Power: political cartography and alternative hydrosocial representations, organised by Riverhood and River Commons, Riobamba, Ecuador (June 2023). ‘El contra-mapeo como un proceso de aprendizaje transformador’ (Counter-mapping as a Process of Transformative Learning).
• Webinar talk,   Web2Learn Webinar Series, part of the EU project GreenVETers (June 2023).
  Session: Education and Advocacy for Environmental Justice. ‘Why Action Research’.

2017

• Invited talk, University of Surrey, Surrey, UK (June 2017). ‘Social Learning for Sustainability Transitions: The Case of Lomba do Pinheiro in Porto Alegre, Brazil’. Awarded the Santander Universities Award (<3%  success rate) to present PhD research in progress.
• Presentation, Cambridge Conservation Symposium, Cambridge, UK (2017). ‘Greenway Network:      A Participatory Planning Approach for Municipalities of the South Region of Brazil’.

• Rivers, Territories and Power: political cartography and alternative hydrosocial representations, Riobamba, Ecuador (July 2023).
• Ríos en Movimiento, Manizales, Colombia (March 2024). 
• Riverhood & River Commons Seminar, Lusaka, Zambia (April 2025).
• Panel: Weaving Rivers through creative methodologies and epistemologies, at the XXVI International Conference of the Society for Human Ecology (XXVI SHE), Mons, Belgium  (June 2025).
• Host and organizer of the bi-monthly Moving Rivers Webinar Series (February 2023 to December 2024)

• Flash Mapping, Quito, Ecuador (July 2023).  Implemented in the XII Encuentro Nacional del Foro de los  Recursos Hídricos, Quito, Ecuador. 
• Chorus of Singing Rivers (March 2024). Sound installation at the international meeting Ríos en Movimiento, in Manizales, Colombia.
• Directed short documentary Rivers in Movement: Following the Voice of the People (May 2024).

I serve as an advisory board member for international projects on water-related citizen science (OTTERS, Horizon Europe Mission Ocean project) and climate justice (Climate Shelters, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil). 

I serve as a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Local Environment

Service as Reviewer for the Following Journals:

Global Environmental Change

Journal of Environmental Innovation and  Societal Transitions

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

Nature-Based Solutions

Local  Environment

Environment Politics