grants and awards
Funding:
2021 | FAPERJ – Rio de Janeiro State Foundation for Research Support. Project: Immersive technologies for more resilient, just, and sustainable cities. $60,000
2021 | Stuckeman Center for Design Computing (SCDC). Project: Modeling the impact of urban features on COVID-19 spread in US cities Pennsylvania State University Grant. $5,000
2020 | Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES, Brazil), Visiting Professors call 2020. Project: CityMetrics: (para)metric tools for analysis and optimization of urban configurations. $30,000
2018 | Minas Gerais Research Foundation (FAPEMIG), Universal demands program. Project: CityMetrics: (para)metric tools for analysis and optimization of urban configurations. $7,000
2016 | Ph.D. Scholarship: National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq, Brazil), Ph.D. student exchange program - Science without borders. $20,000
2016 | Ph.D. Scholarship: Federal University of Juiz de Fora Ph.D. funding scholarship Ph.D. program, Federal University of Juiz de Fora UFJF – Brazil. $20,000
Awards:
Buildings 2022 Best Paper Award - A Grammar-Based Optimization Approach for Designing Urban Fabrics and Locating Amenities for 15-Minute Cities, MDPI, Basel, Switzerland, 2024.
Best presentation award - International Symposium on Geospatial Approaches to Combating COVID-19, 30th International Cartographic Conference. Florence, Italy, 2021
Best paper award – VI Brazilian Symposium of Design Quality in Built Environment (SBQP), 2019
CAPES-Fullbright Ph.D. Thesis Award 2018 – Honorable mention, 2018
20th Scientific Initiation Seminar of Federal University of Juiz de Fora - Main award - Project Coordinator, Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, 2014
Architecture and Urbanism class of 2017 graduation keynote speaker - Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil, 2018
Architecture and Urbanism class of 2014 graduation honored professor - UniAcademia, 2014