Curriculum Vitae
Education
2014 - 2018
PhD in Law (Dr. iur.)
Faculty of Law, Georg-August University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
Supervisor: Prof. Peter-Tobias Stoll
Dissertation (written in English): “Individual and Collective Aspects of Property Rights in the Inter-American Human Rights System: Tribal and Indigenous Lands”
2011 - 2013
Magistra Legum (LL.M.)
Faculty of Law, Georg-August University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
Supervisor: Prof. Peter-Tobias Stoll
Thesis (written in German): “The Right of Indigenous Peoples to Land and Natural Resources: A Comparative Legal Analysis of the UNDRIPS, the ICCPR and the ACHR”
2006 - 2011
Bachelor Degree in Law (LL.B. and MA)
Faculty of Law, Federal University of Pará, Belém, Brazil
Supervisor: Prof. Paulo Weyl
Thesis (written in Portuguese): “Nature and Culture in South American Constitutions: A Socio-Legal Analysis of the Rights to Environment and Culture”
2006 - 2010
Bachelor in Trilingual Executive Management (LL.B.)
Faculty of Law, Federal University of Pará, Belém, Brazil
Supervisor: Prof. Antônio do Socorro Pinheiro
Thesis (written in Portuguese): “Research on Biodiversity in the Brazilian Amazon: Human Resources and Corporate Social Responsibility”
Best Thesis Prize 2009 (State University of Pará)
Research and professional Experience
Postdoc Fellow. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle (Saale), Germany, 2018-2021
Visiting Scholar. Washington College of Law, American University, Washington, D.C., USA, January-April 2017
Intern. Legal Affairs of the UNFCCC Secretariat, United Nations, Bonn, Germany, April-July 2014
Attorney. De Matos Legal Office, Belém, Brazil, March-May 2011
Intern. Special Court for the Elderly, Federal Justice of Pará, Belém, Brazil, July-October 2010
Intern. Public Legal Services Office, Federal University of Pará, Belém, Brazil, September 2009-June 2010
Research Assistant. NAJUPAK Program, Faculty of Law, Federal University of Pará, Belém, Brazil, 2008/2010
Teaching Activities
“Law & Anthropology”. European Academy of Legal Theory, LL.M. in Legal Theory, Goethe University of Frankfurt. 3-hour Course. Frankfurt, Germany, Winter Semester 2019/2020.
“From Indian to Indigenous: Defining and Recognizing Indigenous Peoples in International Law and Practice”. Berlin Institute of Technology (TU Berlin). 2-hour Lecture (Ringvorlesung). Berlin, Germany, Summer Semester 2019.
“Property Protection in the Inter-American System: An Investor’s Perspective”. Goettingen-São Paulo Summer School on International Investment Law, Faculty of Law, Georg-August University of Goettingen. 3-hour Course. Goettingen, Germany, Summer Semester 2018.
Fieldwork Experience
Multi-sited exploratory fieldwork for the research project “Religious and Cultural Diversity before European Courts: Procedural Aspects Regarding the Access to Justice by Members of Vulnerable Groups in Portugal”. 1 month. Portugal, 2019.
Stationary fieldwork for the LL.B. thesis on “Research on Biodiversity in the Brazilian Amazon”. 7 days. Caxiuanã National Forest, Brazil, 2009.
Membership in Professional Associations
European Association of Social Anthropologists, since 2020
Network of Iberoamerican Anthropologists, since 2020
International Law Association, since 2019
German Society of International Law, since 2019
Brazilian Bar Association (Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil), Belém, Brazil, since 2011
American Society of International Law, 2017
Honors and Acamdemic Awards
Scholarship for the ILA Biennial Conference. International Law Association. Sydney, Australia, August 2018
Scholarship for Post-Graduation Studies. Konrad Adenauer Foundation. Germany, 2011 - 2018
Scholarship for German as Foreign Language. DAAD. Cologne, Germany, January-February 2011
Best Bachelor’s Thesis Prize. State University of Pará. Belém, Brazil, 2009
Scholarship for the Hessen International Summer School on Intellectual Property and Biotechnology. Hessen Ministry of Higher Education, Research and the Arts. Giessen, Germany, July - August 2009
Young Scholar Prize. Federal University of Pará. Belém, Brazil, 2008
Organization of Projects and Workshops
Coordinator. Workshop of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Berlin and Goettingen, Germany, August 2015-April 2016
Coordinator. Project on Law and Literature, Belém, Brazil, 2010
Coordinator. Workshop on Youth, Poverty, and Citizenship, Belém, Brazil, 2009
Coordinator. Project on Cinema and Human Rights, Belém, Brazil, 2007
Presentations at Conferences and Workshops
September 2019
Protecting Polyversity Through Procedural Law: Challenges Ahead, University of Minho, Regional Conference of the International Law Association – Portuguese Branch, Braga, Portugal
September 2019
The Legal Framework of Tribal and Indigenous Lands in Brazil: Past and Present under the 2019 New Presidential Government, Free University of Berlin, Fourth Annual LDRN Conference – The Plurality of Law and Development, Berlin, Germany
January 2019
Religious and Cultural Diversity in Portugal: Procedural Aspects of the Access to Justice by Members of Vulnerable Groups, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Departmental Meeting, Halle (Saale), Germany
September 2018
Property Protection in the Inter-American Human Rights System: An Investor’s Perspective, Georg-August University of Goettingen, 1st University of Göttingen / University of Sao Paulo Summer School on International Investment Law, Goettingen, Germany
August 2018
Past and Present of the Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone in Latin America and the Caribbean, Intercontinental Hotel, 78th Biennial Conference of the International Law Association, Sydney, Australia
October 2017
Use, Enjoyment, and Ownership of Beaches and Coastal Seas by Indigenous Peoples in International Human Rights Law: An Unsettled Issue, University of London, 10th Anniversary of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Conference to Review Progress and Challenges, London, UK
April 2017
Fifty Shades of Collectiveness: Tribal and Indigenous Peoples as Collective Subjects in the Inter-American Human Rights System, American University Washington College of Law, International Visiting Scholars Program, Washington, D.C., USA
November 2016
Culture v. Self-determination: Structural Bases for International Legal Frameworks Concerning the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, University of Regensburg, Workshop for Junior Scholars in International Law: Cultural Challenges Facing International Law, Jointly Conference of the Societe Francaise pour le droit international and the Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Internationales Recht, Regensburg, Germany
January 2016
From Individual Rights to Group Rights in International Human Rights Law: The Nature of Rights of Tribal and Indigenous Peoples in the Inter-American Human Rights System, Georg-August University of Goettingen, Seminar of the Institute for International Economic and Environmental Law, Goettingen, Germany
July 2014
The Role of NGOs Regarding the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, UNFCCC, Internal Meeting of the Secretariat, United Nations, Bonn, Germany
November 2012
Multikulturalismus und Multinaturalismus als Rechtspositionen von Verfassungsrang in Lateinamerika: Perkspektiven und Grenzen am Beispiel indigener Voelker, Akademie der Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Seminar on Democracy, Autocracy and Globalisation: Latin America Facing New Challenges, Berlin, Germany
September 2010
Arte, Cultura e Direitos Humanos, Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil
November 2009
Interdisciplinaridade nos Direitos Humanos, Federal University of Ceara, Fortaleza, Brazil
Special Skills
LAW & ANTHROPOLOGY
Course on Anthropology of Current World Issues, University of Queensland, Australia, January 2020
Course on Ethnologische Reflexionen ueber Indigene als ein Politikkonzept, Georg-August University of Goettingen, Germany, April-June 2012
Course on Legal Anthropology, Federal University of Pará, Brazil, February-June 2010
Course on Participative Methodology for Social Research, Emilio Goeldi Museum of Pará, Brazil, 2009
RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODOLOGIES
CreA(c)tivar o Fazer Científico nas Ciências Sociais e Humanidades, Centre for Social Studies, Portugal, September 2019
Course on the Epistemologies and Methodologies of Comparative Constitutional Law, Georg-August University of Goettingen, Germany, July 2018
TRANSLATION AND PROOFREADING
German to Portuguese. A Jurisdição do Trabalho na República Federal da Alemanha. Belém: Journal of the 8th Regional Labour Court, 2017
German to Portuguese. Trinta Máximas de Goethe. Belém: Journal of the 8th Regional Labour Court, 2017
English to Portuguese. Video as Evidence: Basic Practices. WITNESS (witness.org), 2016
Other Professional Activities
Case Law Reporter. Case Law Database on European Cultural and Religious Diversity (CUREDI), Law & Anthropology Department, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle (Saale), Germany, 2018-2020
Peer Reviewer. Goettingen Journal of International Law, Goettingen, Germany, 2019
Participant. International Conference of the Oxford Handbook on Law and Anthropology, Berlin, Germany, 2018
Judge. Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition, Washington, D.C., USA, 2017
Observer. 16th Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, New York, USA, 2017
Participant. Course on Arbeiten in vielfaeltigen Teams: Diversitaet als Herausforderung, Goettingen, Germany, 2017
Participant. Conference on Migration Comparative Law, Hamburg, Germany, 2016
Participant. Summer School on Past and Present in the German-Danish Relations, Christianslyst, Germany, 2016
Observer. 14th Session of the WIPO Intergovernmental Committee on IP, TK and Folklore, Geneva, Switzerland, 2009
Languages
Portuguese (mother tongue), English, German and Spanish (fluent), French (basic knowledge)