Bachelor's degree in International Relations, University of São Paulo, 2010
Master's degree in Social Anthropology, University of São Paulo, 2014
Ph.D. in Social Anthropology, University of São Paulo, 2022

I am a researcher interested in the history of climate sciences, environmental sciences, and natural history in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries in Brazil, the Americas, Europe, and elsewhere – and the connections between scientists, intellectuals, naturalists, local interlocutors, and assistants. I focus on how they have discussed tropical landscapes and climates in their texts, travel reports, and images, and – on the other hand – the influence of tropical landscapes and climates in their knowledge and practices.

For my master’s thesis, I wrote on climate change scientists in São Paulo. For my Ph.D. dissertation, I discussed 19th-century traveling naturalists, tropical rainforests, savannas, and deserts, looking at narratives, scientific debates, and images of these landscapes, their environmental transformation, and the entangled histories between people, vegetation, and climate. Now I am researching the history of climate sciences in Amazonia in the late 20th century, and the connections between forest, climate, and environmental transformation – part of a project called “The Amazon as a Microcosm of the Anthropocene”.

I am also co-editor of the Enciclopédia de Antropologia, an online encyclopedia of anthropology based at the University of São Paulo, with short entries on concepts and debates, institutions, fields, publications, and authors (anthropologists, philosophers, historians, indigenous activists, black intellectuals, etc.) aimed at students and the general public. We are currently translating some entries into English, specifically those related to Brazilian authors, debates, and institutions.

Histórias Do Fogo e Das Transformações De Paisagens No Brasil Central Para Naturalistas Estrangeiros No Século XIX, Estudos Históricos, Rio de Janeiro, v. 36, n. 80, p. 370-391, 2023 [open access]

O desafio do Antropoceno para a cosmologia dos modernos. Resenha de Bruno Latour, Diante de Gaia, Topoi – Revista de História, Rio de Janeiro, v. 24, n. 54, p. 816-823, 2023 [book review]

with Marisol Marini, Bruno Latour, In: Enciclopédia de Antropologia. São Paulo, Universidade de São Paulo, 2023 [encyclopedia entry]

From Bavaria to Brazil and back: travel iconography of the Cerrado. In: Santos, G.M. (ed.), Spaces and Ideas. An overview of the entangled German “Begegnung” with Brazil. São Paulo, Intermeios, 2023

Nos rastros de ruínas e desertos: histórias humanas de paisagens e climas no longo século XIX In: Marras, S. & Taddei, R. (eds.), O Antropoceno: sobre modos de compor mundos. Belo Horizonte, Fino Traço Editora, 2022 [open access]

The Hidden and Forgotten Cerrado Plants in São Paulo. In: Campbell-Jones, C.; Paxman, K.; Lee, F. (eds.), More Just Sustainable Futures. Artistic Research Symposium for PhD Students. Plymouth: School of Art, Design & Architecture, University of Plymouth, 2022 [open access]

Imagining Nations and Producing Climate-Change Knowledge in Brazil In: Sillitoe, P. (ed.), The Anthroposcene of Weather and Climate. Ethnographic Contributions to the Climate Change Debate. New York, Berghanh Books, p. 271-293, 2021 [open access]

The Brazilian Campos in Nineteenth-Century Landscape Art, Environment & Society Portal, Arcadia, 2021 [open access]

Water crisis and the hidden, forgotten, and invisible landscapes in São Paulo. In: Taks, J. & Alzugaray, S. (eds.), Anthropological contributions for sustainable futures Research and interventions in the fields of environmental needs, gender equity, human rights and knowledge in South America and the United Kingdom. Montevideo: Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación, Universidad de la República, 2019 [open access]

Paisagem – Tim Ingold, In: Enciclopédia de Antropologia. São Paulo, Universidade de São Paulo, 2016 [encyclopedia entry]

Enciclopédia de Antropologia

Graduate seminar “Antropoceno: abordagens transdisciplinares”, 2021 – online classes available on Youtube.

Short course, “História, ambiente e conhecimento no Antropoceno – especial Amazônia”, 2023 – classes available on Youtube