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 

2026

• Moderator, Second Symposium on Creative Methodologies for Studying Changing Climates, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (September 2026). Paper Session 3: Storying and reimagining water
• Conference presentation, Conference Disturbio en la Cartografía: Contracartografías y Cambios de Paradigmas, Paris, France (September 2026). "Counter-cartography as Transgressive Learning: Fostering Paradigm Shifts in Water Struggles."
• External seminar, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden (August 2026). "World Making through Climate Adaptation: Perspectives from Enactivism — Understanding Structural Coupling."
• Invited talk, School of Public Health (FSP), University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil (August 2026). "Processos participativos de design para adaptação climática: perspectivas a partir da enação."
• Conference presentation, POLLEN Conference 2026, Barcelona, Spain (July 2026). "Positionality in Motion: Reflexive and Relational Practices within River Co-learning Arenas (RCAs)."
• Invited  talk, Knowledge, Technology and Innovation Group (KTI), Wageningen University, The      Netherlands (June 2026). "Transmative Climate Adaptation: How can the Enactivist Perspective help us?"
• Invited  talk, BC3 — Basque Centre for Climate Change, Bilbao, Spain (February 2026). "World-Making through Climate Adaptation: Insights from an Enactivist Perspective."  (During a three-day research visit to the centre.)
• Conference presentation, International Conference: Power and Care: Enactive Approaches and Critical Social Philosophy, Barcelona, Spain (May 2026). "Love as a Relational Ground: Enacting Transformative Climate Adaptation through Participatory Sense-Making."

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). 

Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Local Environment

Reviewer for the 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