Curriculum Vitae

"Action needed to make carbon offsets from forest conservation work for climate change mitigation" (2023) Invited speaker.  Carbon Club, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA. Pasadena, USA

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"Possible Overestimations: Carbon Reductions in REDD+ Projects and Their Impact on Carbon Markets in Latin America" (2023) Keynote speaker. CCAP (webinar) [Presentation link]

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"Synthetic control methods for impact evaluation" (2022) Guest lecturer. Course: ENV 130 Impact Evaluation of Conservation and Development Projects and Programs. University of Bonn. Bonn, Germany

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"Quality of forest carbon credits in voluntary Carbon Markets: Navigating forest carbon markets towards high integrity" (2023) Panelist. German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ). Bonn, Germany (webinar)​

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"Counterfactual methods and their use in the voluntary forest carbon market: past, present and future" (2023) Panelist. Conservation Impact Evaluation Virtual Seminar Series (webinar)​ [Presentation link]

"Synthetic control methods for impact evaluation" (2022) Guest lecturer. Course: ENV 130 Impact Evaluation of Conservation and Development Projects and Programs. University of Bonn. Bonn, Germany

"Voluntary private REDD+ interventions in Peru, Colombia, and Indonesia: disappointing evidence on crediting baselines and project impacts" (2021) Invited speaker. Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative and Meridian Institute. Oslo, Norway, and Washington, DC, USA (webinar)

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"Overstated carbon emission reductions from voluntary REDD+ projects in the Brazilian Amazon" (2021) Guest lecturer. Course: ENV 130 Impact Evaluation of Conservation and Development Projects and Programs. University of Bonn. Bonn, Germany

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"Overstated carbon emission reductions from voluntary REDD+ projects in the Brazilian Amazon" (2021) Invited speaker. Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG), University of Cambridge. Cambridge, UK (webinar)

"REDD+, are carbon credits impacts overstated?" (2020) Invited speaker. GPSNR Topic Talks! Global Platform for Sustainable Natural Rubber (GPSNR) and German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ). Singapore/Bonn, Germany (webinar)

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"Overstated carbon emission reductions from voluntary REDD+ projects in the Brazilian Amazon" (2020) Invited speaker. Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Xishuangbanna, China (webinar)

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"Overstated carbon emission reductions from voluntary REDD+ projects in the Brazilian Amazon" (2020) Invited speaker. Moore Center for Science, Conservation International. Arlington, USA (webinar)

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"Inductive pattern-based land-use/cover change (LUCC) models" (2020) Guest Lecturer. Doctoral Programme Climate Change and Land Use, West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. Kumasi, Ghana

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"What stops deforestation? Seriously" (2018) Guest Lecturer. Course: LAS 6938 The Amazon. University of Florida. Gainesville, FL, USA [Presentation link]

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"Impacts of REDD+ Payments on a Coupled Human-Natural System in the Amazon" (2017) Seminar. Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources. University of Georgia. Athens, GA, USA

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"Tropical Forests, Carbon, and REDD+" (2017) Guest Lecturer. Course: FORS 8460 Management and Modeling of Forest Carbon Resource. University of Georgia. Athens, GA, USA

"Making Sense of REDD+, Carbon Markets, and the State of Acre's Nested REDD+ Jurisdiction" (2016) Tropilunch. University of Florida. Gainesville, FL, USA

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"The role of Coupled Human-Natural Systems in Development and Conservation Interventions" (2016) Tropilunch. University of Florida. Gainesville, FL, USA

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"REDD+ and Carbon Markets" (2015) Guest Lecturer. Course: GEO 4938/6938 and LAS 4935/6938 Environmental Catastrophes, Tipping Points, and Challenges. University of Florida. Gainesville, FL, USA

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"REDD project with the Suruís from the Amazon" (2015) Guest Lecturer. Course: LAS 6938 The Amazon. University of Florida. Gainesville, FL, USA

"Can We Stop Deforestation?" (2014) Guest Lecturer. Course: GEA 1000 Geography of a Changing World. University of Florida. Gainesville, FL, USA

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"Training on Carbon Markets and Forest Carbon Methodologies for Auditors" (2011) Lecturer. Rainforest Alliance, Brazil (Imaflora). Piracicaba, SP, Brazil. 40 hours

"Concepts of Forest Carbon Projects" (2012) Invited Speaker. Forestry Science and Research Institute (IPEF) Piracicaba, SP, Brazil

"Payment for Environmental Services" (2011) Invited Speaker. Workshop on Payment for Environmental Services. German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ). São Paulo, SP, Brazil