I am a Brazilian thinker, nature lover, world explorer, curious traveler, and wannabe professor of global environmental politics. I am based in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, where I work as a postdoc researcher at the Radboud University. I study how Indigenous peoples and traditional communities can inform better biodiversity decisions to protect the Amazon and the Cerrado biomes. Places I've lived so far: *In Brazil: -Fortaleza/CE (2007-2008) -Limeira/SP (2009-2011) -Campinas/SP (2011-2012; 2017) -São Paulo/SP (2014) -Rio de Janeiro/RJ (2015-2016) -Brasília/DF (2018-2022) *In Colombia: -Bucaramanga (2012) *In Germany: -Frankfurt (2019-2020) *In the USA: -Santa Cruz, California (2021-2022) *In the Netherlands: -Nijmegen (2023 - currently)