Researchers
Alberto Charrua has a degree in Forest Engineering from Eduardo Mondlane University and a Master in Environmental Engineering from Jilin University of China. Currently, Alberto Charrua is a lecturer and researcher at the Department of Earth and Environment at the Faculty of Science and Technology, Beira Extension. Alberto Charrua is interested in the following scientific areas: environmental economics, biodiversity conservation, environmental biotechnology, ecological modeling, valuation of ecosystem services, and environmental impact assessment.
Carlo Caporali is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Environmental Economics at the GSSI – School of Advanced Studies in L’Aquila (IT), where he received his PhD in Urban Studies and Regional Science. Carlo is an applied economist with strong qualitative background, mainly interested in the causal estimation of the impact of extreme events and exceptional threats on complex socio-economic dynamics. He is currently involved in a research project of national interest related to the assessment of the effectiveness of public policy in minimizing local impacts with climate-related adaptation expenditures, under the supervision of Prof. Alessandro Palma (GSSI).
Claudia Cavallari is a Master's candidate in Resource Economics and Sustainable Development at the University of Bologna. Passionate about environmental stewardship and committed to building sustainable societies, she is currently developing her thesis on energy poverty in collaboration with the Environmental Economics Knowledge Center at Nova SBE.
Eurico Afonso holds a master’s degree in Economics from NOVA SBE. He is an easygoing person who is always searching to improve his skills. His research interests include Water Economics and Agricultural Economics.
Gonçalo Araújo is a Marine Biologist and has a master’s degree in Marine Biodiversity and Conservation. He also has a postgraduate degree in Marine Science, Management and Administration and has attended postgraduate studies in Data Science.He has over 1 year of at sea experience in fisheries observation and data collection for scientific research campaigns, with more then 6 years experience in fisheries. He has coordinated the fisheries observation programs in Portugal for NAFO and ICCAT , and has worked as a research fellow at CCMAR and IPMA on several commercial and recreational fisheries projects. He is currently a researcher and co-founder of an aquaculture startup. Main interest areas: fisheries, aquaculture, data science, marine species conservation, entrepreneurship, maker movement and hackathons.
Inês Póvoa is a Senior Adviser at Banco de Portugal. She holds a PhD in Economics from NOVA School of Business and Economics, where she was supervised by Full Professor Maria A. Cunha-e-Sá. Her research specializes in the firm-level effects of extreme weather events, such as droughts and wildfires. She also holds a Master’s degree in Economics from NOVA SBE, where she currently teaches. Linkedin
Joana Matias holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Economics from Nova School of Business and Economics, where she specialized in Public Policy. Her Master's thesis focused on Environmental and International Economics, analyzing the impact of the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) on EU imports and associated CO2 emissions. She began her professional career as a Health Economics and Outcomes Research Analyst in a pharmaceutical consulting firm, where she worked for two years. In September 2023, she joined Galp’s Renewable Energy department, focusing on the analysis of production, costs, and investment in the company’s renewable assets. In summer 2024, Joana transitioned to a new role as a Risk Specialist in Galp’s energy market trading operations, where she contributes to the company's strategic risk management in the energy sector.
João Seixo holds a Master’s degree in Economics from NOVA SBE and a BSc in Economics from ISCTE-IUL, focusing on Environmental and Natural Resource Economics and Public Policy. He is currently working in the economic valuation of land-based Ecosystem Services in Continental Portugal. His research interests include Ecological Economics and Climate Change Economics.
João Vaz Patto is a PhD student in Economics at Nova SBE. Recently, he has been carrying out research on the bioeconomic modelling of forestry under risk of fire, ecological-economic planning of agricultural landscapes and ecosystem-based fisheries management. His research interests in the field of natural resource economics include mainly the topics of agriculture, forestry and land use.
João Vaz is a Research Assistant at NOVA SBE. He received a PhD in Economics from the University of Wyoming. His research interests are in environmental and natural resource economics. He conducts modeling and simulation work to examine how the ecological dynamics of natural systems should inform economic behavior in resource-extraction problems and uses theoretical and empirical methods to evaluate the design and implementation of environmental markets for biodiversity conservation. At NOVA SBE, he is working on the A-AAGORA project related to the sustainable management of marine and coastal ecosystems. He previously held a postdoctoral position in environmental economics at the University of Gothenburg. He has been affiliated with interdisciplinary research associations Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in a Changing Climate (BECC) at Lund University.
Luisa Ribeiro von Glehn Nobre is a PhD student in Economics at Nova SBE.
Margarida Ortigão is a PhD student in Sustainability Science. She holds a Master’s degree in Economics from Nova SBE and a BSc also in Economics from ISEG. She has been working in different projects at the Knowledge Center, mostly on the economic valuation of marine and coastal ecosystem services, in Portugal and Mozambique. is a PhD student in Sustainability Science. She holds a Master’s degree in Economics from Nova SBE and a BSc also in Economics from ISEG. She has been working in different projects at the Knowledge Center, mostly on the economic valuation of marine and coastal ecosystem services, in Portugal and Mozambique.
Mariana Branco holds a bachelor's degree in economics and a master's degree in finance from Nova School of Business and Economics. She began her career as a Risk Consultant for the banking industry, primarily focusing on financial risks and regulatory exercises. Currently she works in the Prudential Supervision Department of Banco de Portugal. She is also a volunteer in the Budget and Finance Committee of the Os 230 project. She is passionate about environmental issues and sustainability, with a strong concern for gender and social equity.
Mariia Murasheva is a PhD student in Economics at Nova SBE. Her fields are environmental and health economics. She studies the impact of air pollution on the welfare of local communities. Web site
Miguel Fernandes is a PhD Candidate in Marine Sciences at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, since March 2022, a researcher at MARE-ULisboa, and a Research Fellow at the NOVA-SBE Environmental Economics Knowledge Center. His PhD project focuses on the development of a spatial-explicit index to assess the vulnerability of marine spatial planning and the blue economy to climate change in Portugal. He holds a degree in Biology and a master's in Marine Ecology. His research interest pertains to marine ecosystem services, as well as the importance of their conservation and sustainable ocean management. At NOVA-SBE, Miguel is responsible for providing expertise on the economic valuation of ecosystem services,
Pedro Santos is an Eco|Fin PhD Student at NOVA School of Business and Economics, under the supervision of Full Professor Maria A. Cunha-e-Sá, and Associate Professor João Pedro Pereira. He holds a Master Degree from The Lisbon MBA International (Católica|Nova|MIT Sloan), and graduated in Hydrography at the University of Plymouth, England. His research interests are mainly in environmental economics and energy economics, having published in the Energy Economics Journal. He is currently developing research on the economic valuation of offshore wind energy, and lecturing as a Teacher Assistant at NOVA SBE Global Energy Markets and Finance courses. Pedro has also taught at Universidade Católica Portuguesa, led the establishment of a hydrographic engineering company, and participated in the revitalization of a forty-year-old industrial company.
Renato Rosa is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra. He graduated in Economics at Nova SBE, where he also obtained his PhD in the field of Environmental Economics. From 2008 to 2011, he worked at Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, developing research integrating forestry, agriculture and land use topics into numerical macroeconomic models. In 2012, he was awarded an Investigator FCT starting grant in the "The FCT Investigator Programme". In 2018, he obtained a Principal Research grant in the FCT Scientific Employment Stimulus. From 2017 to 2022, he was a co-scientific director of the NovaBSE Environmental Economics Knowledge Center. His research interests focus on renewable resources and ecosystem services with a particular emphasis on multidisciplinary bio-economic modelling. To date, he has participated as a principal investigator, work package leader or as a member of the research team in several research projects, having supervised the work of various young researchers. His research has been presented at over 20 international conferences, and he has been an invited speaker in multiple university seminars and workshops. His research has been published in top field journals, such as Ecological Economics, Environmental and Resource Economics and the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. He is a member of two expert groups of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES). He was a member of the board of directors for the Spanish-Portuguese Association of Natural Resource and Environmental Economics (AERNA). He has been invited to integrate the scientific committee of various international conferences. Renato has taught at Nova SBE, the University of Aveiro and at the Ca'Foscari University of Venice.
Sofia F. Franco (Ph.D from UCSB, USA) is an Assistant Professor (Adjunct) at Nova School of Business and Economics (Nova SBE). Sofia has also been a consultant to the World Bank and to the National Center for Smart Growth Research and Education, Maryland, USA, on topics related to urban development and zoning policies. Sofia is an applied microeconomist with a research agenda that lies at the boundaries of environmental, urban and transportation economics, and uses state-of-the-art econometric and computable general equilibrium methods, as well as geographical information (GIS) tools. Most of her work consists of theoretical and empirical assessments of major public policy issues. Sofia has published scholarly articles dealing with the efficiency and distributional impacts of anti-sprawl policies, urban sprawl and land use change in the United States. Additional work has focused on the impacts of parking policies on urban sprawl, land consumption and real estate prices. A further branch of her research has examined the impacts of urban growth controls on forest management practices. Her research has appeared in peer-reviewed academic journals and has also been presented in several major international conferences.
Til Dietrich is currently involved in developing econometric models for scientific publications. He previously worked at the sustainability bank Triodos and graduated from Nova SBE with a M.Sc. in Economics, focusing on environmental and behavioural economics as well as econometrics. He is passionate about environmental issues, with a strong concern for social equity in the transition towards a more sustainable society.