Laila Thomaz Sandroni
Sustainability Fellow - Fall 2024
Office: AL-522

Laila is an environmental social scientist working at the science-policy interface in matters related to Global Environmental Change, especially Climate Change and Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. She is passionate about improving pathways for the combination of diverse sets of knowledge to find innovative solutions for complex sustainability challenges. She has participated and/or coordinated several research and innovation projects involving diverse stakeholders, including academics from different disciplines, local associations, indigenous organizations, environmental NGOs, intergovernmental organizations and federal and state level governments in Brazil. She has particular experience with projects related to inclusive biodiversity conservation in the Atlantic Forest. 

Bruno Tarin Nascimento
Visiting Scholar - Fall 2024
Office: AL-522

Bruno holds a Ph.D. in Communication and Culture from the School of Communication (ECO) at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). He has served as a Substitute Professor in the undergraduate Media Studies program at the Federal Fluminense University (UFF), focusing on Media and Society, in the Department of Cultural and Media Studies at the Institute of Art and Social Communication. He holds a Master's degree in Communication and Culture from UFRJ, a Bachelor's degree in International Relations from Centro Universitário da Cidade - RJ, and an MBA in Management in Social Responsibility and Socio-Environmental Marketing from UCAM-RJ. He partially completed a degree in Social Sciences at UFRJ and underwent training at the United Nations Information Center in Brazil. He completed a course in editing and cinematographic language at the Center for Information and Documentation of Black Artists (CIDAN) and has extensive experience in Free Software applied to multimedia production. He has experience in the fields of Communication and Information Theory, Cultural Studies, Political Economy of Culture, Socio-environmental Project Management, Digital Culture, and Arts with an emphasis on Video Arts.

Roberto Ivo Da Rocha Lima Filho
Visiting Scholar - Fall 2024/ Spring 2025
Office: AL-522

Roberto Is graduated in Economics from the University of São Paulo (2000), Master's in Economics for Development - University of Oxford (2005) and holds Ph.D. in Sciences from the University of São Paulo - Faculty of Medicine (2014). He is currently a visiting professor at San Diego State University and an associate professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro at Industrial Engineering Department and the Program of Production Engineering (COPPE/UFRJ). He has experience in Economics, with emphasis on Energy Economics, Economic Engineering, Decision Sciences and Behavioral Economics.

Viviane Kraieski de Assunção
Visiting Scholar - Fall 2024 / Spring 2025
Office: AL-522

Viviane is currently visiting professor at San Diego State University and professor in the Environmental Sciences Graduate Program (PPGCA) at the Universidade do Extremo Sul Catarinense (UNESC). She holds a Ph.D. and a master's degree in Social Anthropology from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), and completed a doctoral internship at the Institute of Latin American Studies at Columbia University. She was post-doctoral fellow in Anthropology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She is the leader of the Environment, Culture and Society Research Group (GPMACS). She supervises and conducts research mainly on the following topics: development projects and environmental impacts; food, consumption and disposal; urban environment, cultures and socio-spatial practices. She is currently conducting research on the social effects of lithium extraction in Southern California.

Huey Younger
Assistant/Student
Office: AL-626