People

Education

• Rutgers University, NJ, Ph.D. Student
• Fluminense Federal University, B.S. in Water Resources and Environmental Engineering, 2018
  • Undergraduate Thesis I: "Data collection for water quality modeling in the River Macacu Watershed"
  • Undergraduate Thesis II: "A hydrological model applied to a small, forested watershed: discharge predictions for different climatic scenarios"

Courses/Instruction

• Rutgers University Earth and Planetary Sciences

  • Teaching Assistant for GEO 414 - Hydrologic Processes

Honors and Awards

• American Geophysical Union (AGU) - The Horton Research Award - 2018
  • Project: "Vegetation responses to groundwater in the Amazon"
• Federal Government of Brazil/CAPES - The Science Without Borders Exchange Fellowship - 2014

Research Interests

• Vegetation and groundwater: how does groundwater drive plant distribution?
• Plant physiological traits: how do plants cope with water-related stresses?
• Water and forest mortality: how do tropical forests respond to meteorological and hydrological droughts?

Advisor and Dissertation Committee

• Dr. Ying Fan Reinfelder (Advisor)

Meetings / Abstracts

• Workshop - "Plant hydraulics, hydrological environments and tropical vegetation modeling" - Wageningen University, Netherlands - 2018