Advising

PostDocs

Current

Raquel Z. Coutinho

Area: Demography
Project: Reproductive intentions and strategies for vulnerability reduction under a Zika Virus outbreak
Role: supervisor
Background: Ph.D. in Sociology (Major in Demography) | UNC – Chapel Hill
Scholarship: CAPES Foundation

 

Past

Tiago Cisalpino

Area: Spatial Analysis
Project: Vulnerability to Climate Change in the Brazilian Midsize Cities
Role: supervisor
Background: Ph.D. in Geoprocessing | PUC-Minas
Scholarship: FINEP / CNPq (Rede Clima)

 


Ph.D.

Current

Vanessa Cardoso Ferreira

Area: Demography (Major: Environmental Demography)
Project: To be defined.
Role: advisor
Background: Masters in Demography | UFMG

 

Marcelo Dantas

Area: Demography (Major: Migration)
Project: Migration in the Metropolitan Brazilian Northeast during the 1990’s and 2000’s
Role: co-advisor
Background: Masters in Demography | UFMG

Leonardo Pampanelli

Area: Demography (Major: Migration)
Project: Change in the Pattern  and Level of Out-Migration and Return Migration in the Brazilian Northeast from 2000 to 2010
Role: co-advisor
Background: Masters in Demography | UFMG

Carlos André Teixeira Gomes

Area: Education
Project: Poor school or school for the poor? Infrastructure inequality in the Brazilian schools
Role: co-advisor
Background: Masters in Education | UFMG

Rafael Andres Urrego Posada

Area: Demography (Major: Indigenous People)
Project: To be defined.
Role: advisor
Background: Masters in Demography | UFMG

 

Past

Luisa Pimenta Terra

Area: Demography (Major: Family Demography)
Dissertation: Values, Conservatism, and Marital Happiness in Brazil
Role: advisor
Background: Masters in Demography | UFMG

Márcia Barroso Fontes

Area: Demography (Major: Economics Demography)
Dissertation: Economic status of single parent and  two parents households in Brazil: a household budget approach
Role: co-advisor
Background: Masters in Demography | UFMG

Luis Bertolucci Jr.

Area: Demography (Major: Migration)
Dissertation: Demographic and socioeconomic profile of the migration of people with disability in Brazil during the 1990’s and 2000’s
Role: co-advisor
Background: Masters in Economics | UFMG

Marden Barbosa Campos

Area: Demography (Major: Migration)
Dissertation: Elderly migration from São Paulo to Minas Gerais in the 1980’s and 1990’s
Role: co-advisor
Background: B.A. in Economics | UFMG

 


Masters

Current

Mariana de Araújo Cunha

Area: Demography (Major: Family Demography)
Project: To be defined
Role: advisor
Background: Socioenvironmental Sciences | UFMG

Nuni Jorgensen

Area: Demography (Major: International Migration)
Project: International migration, family, and gender in Governador Valadares
Role: co-advisor
Background: Political Sciences | UnB

Michel Lopez Barrios

Area: Demography (Major: Fertility)
Project: Fertility and Land Use in agricultural frontiers: the case of Santarém, Brazil
Role: co-advisor
Background: Economics | Universidad de La Habana

 

Past

Vanessa Cardoso Ferreira

Area: Demography (Major: Environmental Demography)
Thesis: Household and lot life cycle and land use systems in Machadinho d’Oeste, Brazilian Amazon
Role: advisor
Background: Economics | UFMG

Alysson Portella

Area: Economics (Major: Economics of Education)
Thesis: A proposal for a multidimensional index of basic education in Brazil based on the capability approach
Role: co-advisor
Background: Economics | UFRGS

Fernando  Antônio  Sette  Pinheiro  Jr

Area: Demography (Major: Health Demography)
Thesis: PSF,  household arrangements, and preventive health care: empirical evidence for Minas Gerais
Role: co-advisor
Background: Public Management | School of Gov – FJP

Aline Marchesi Hora

Area: Territorial Studies (Major: Environmental Studies)
Thesis: Social representations of Galileia and Tumiritinga communities regarding conservation and use of the Doce River
Role: co-advisor
Background: Biology | Univale

Katiúscia Cardoso Rodrigues

Area: Microbiology (Major: Epidemiology)
Thesis: Spatial and temporal analysis of the endemic Hansen’s Disease in Governador Valadares from 2001 to 2010
Role: co-advisor
Background: Medicine | UFMG

 


Undergraduate

Current

Ana Carolina Lima Barros

Area: Geography | UFMG
Project: Multidimensional profiles of highly risk pregnancies in Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Role: advisor

Marina Alves Amorim

Area: Statistics | UFMG
Project: River floods and risk of flooding: an inferential Graph analysis
Role: advisor

Luiza Melo

Area: Socioenvironmental Sciences | UFMG
Project: Environmental Behavior and Proximity to Natural Resources: an applied spatial regime model for Governador Valadares
Role: advisor

Past

Wesley Henrique Silva Pereira

Area: Statistics | UFMG
Title: Web of Meanings and Network of Persons: two proposed formulas to derive weighted links from evocation data
Role: advisor

Bruna Daniele Ribeiro Firmino

Area: Socioenvironmental Sciences | UFMG
Title: The influence of the Samarco Dam Failure on the Social Representations of the Doce River: a case study for Governador Valadares, Brazil
Role: advisor

Maira Helena Costa

Area: Socioenvironmental Sciences | UFMG
Title: River Floodings, Preparedness Behavior and Material Consequences: a flooding calendar approach applied to the Doce River Floods
Role: advisor

Melissa Lorena de Araújo Pinho

Area: Statistics | UFMG
Title: Environmental Attitude and Behavior in Governador Valadares: A structural equation modeling approach
Role: advisor

Fernanda Regina Oliveira

Area: Actuarial Sciences | UFMG
Title: Financial Reserves of Health Insurance Companies: projection of liquidity margins to 2022
Role: advisor

Bernardo Pardini de Freitas

Area: Economics | UFMG
Title: Causes  and  Lessons  from  the 2008 Financial Crisis: a Minskynian approach
Role: advisor

Ana Cláudia Terra

Area: Actuarial Sciences | UFMG
Title: Social Retirement System for Public Employees: a mixed-regime analysis
Role: advisor

Tatiana Correa da Silva Pereira

Area: Socioenvironmental Sciences | UFMG
Title: From the Nature of Consump- tion to the Consumption of Nature
Role: advisor

 

 


Scientific Training for Undergraduates

Current

Pedro Menezes de Araújo

Background: Statistics | UFMG
Project: Environmental  attitude, environmental behavior, and sustainable development in Brazil:  a longitudinal perspective
Scholarship: FAPEMIG

Ana Laura Figueiredo

Background: Actuarial Sciences | UFMG
Project: Climate Uncertainty and Insurance Demand
Scholarship: FINEP/CNPq (Rede Clima)

Bruna Daniele Ribeiro Firmino

Background: Socioenvironmental Sciences | UFMG
Project: Urban infrastructure in Governador Valadares and its likely association with the local migration dynamics
Scholarship: FINEP/CNPq (Rede Clima)

Julia Capobiango

Background: Socioenvironmental Sciences | UFMG
Project: Protected areas, household development, and vulnerabilities
Scholarship: ICV/PRPq – UFMG

Wesley Henrique Silva Pereira

Area: Statistics | UFMG
Title: Applied neural networks for cognitive data
Scholarship: ICV/PRPq – UFMG

Past

Marina Alves Amorim

Area: Statistics | UFMG
Project: Web of meanings: social network analysis of representations towards the Doce River and the river floods in Governador Valadares, Brazil
Scholarship: CNPq

Marina Alves Amorim

Area: Statistics | UFMG
Project: Youth violence in Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais
Scholarship: FINEP/CNPq (Rede Clima)

Ana Laura Figueiredo

Background: Actuarial Sciences | UFMG
Project: Climate Uncertainty and Insurance Demand
Scholarship: CNPq

Sílvia Resende

Background: Socioenvironmental Sciences | UFMG
Project: Human and Material Impacts of the River Floods in Governador Valadares
Scholarship: FINEP/CNPq (Rede Clima)

Eduardo Fernandes

Background: Statistics | UFMG
Project: Vulnerability, Violence, and Social Networks in Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais
Scholarship: CNPq

Yago Vilarino Costa

Background: Civil and Environmental Engineering | Univale
Project: Migration, Vulnerability, and Environmental Change in the Doce River Valley (survey interviewer)
Scholarship: FINEP/CNPq (Rede Clima)

Rodrigo Vieira da Cruz

Background: Civil and Environmental Engineering | Univale
Project: Migration, Vulnerability, and Environmental Change in the Doce River Valley (survey interviewer)
Scholarship: FINEP/CNPq (Rede Clima)

Guilherme Gonçalves

Background: Civil and Environmental Engineering | Univale
Project: Migration, Vulnerability, and Environmental Change in the Doce River Valley (survey interviewer)
Scholarship: FINEP/CNPq (Rede Clima)

Juliana Rodrigues Maciel

Background: Psychology | Univale
Project: Migration, Vulnerability, and Environmental Change in the Doce River Valley (survey interviewer)
Scholarship: FINEP/CNPq (Rede Clima)

Áquila Rodrigues Costa Santos

Background: Pharmaceutical Sciences | Univale
Project: Migration, Vulnerability, and Environmental Change in the Doce River Valley (survey interviewer)
Scholarship: FINEP/CNPq (Rede Clima)

Melissa Lorena de Araújo Pinho

Background: Statistics | UFMG
Project: Environmental Attitude and Behavior in Governador Valadares: A structural equation modeling approach
Scholarship: FINEP/CNPq (Rede Clima)

Gabriel Henrique Oliveira Assunção

Background: Statistics | UFMG
Project: Health, People, and the Environment: evidence for Brazil and Rio Doce Valley
Scholarship: FAPEMIG

Ana Carolina Fernandes Dias

Background: Statistics | UFMG
Project: The influence of geophysical attributes on People’s Environmental Behavior: evidence from Governador Valadares
Scholarship: FAPEMIG

André Guedes Maia

Background: Economics | UFMG
Project: Income Transfers and Wellbeing Dynamics in Rural Brazil
Scholarship: CNPq

Andressa Lopes Rodrigues

Background: Actuarial Sciences | UFMG
Project: Socioeconomic Impacts of Large Infrastructure Investments in Brazil
Scholarship: CNPq

João Pedro Samarino

Background: Computational Mathematics | UFMG
Project: Migration and Environmental Perception in Rio Doce Valley: a neural network approach
Scholarship: PET/UFMG

Vitória Amélia Mafra

Background: Computational Mathematics | UFMG
Project: The impact of household income transfers on investment capacity of rural families in the Brazilian Amazon
Scholarship: FAPEMIG