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