Information
📚 Organization | University School for Advanced Studies of Pavia (IUSS Pavia) |
📆 Period @ ESA Φ-lab | September 2025 - March 2026 |
🌍 Project @ ESA CIN | ⚠️ Project is ongoing - Advancing the Protection of Carbon Sinks in the Brazilian Amazon: An Agent-BasedModel to Predict Land Use Changes for Livestock |
🔨 Linkedin | https://www.linkedin.com/in/tiana-assis-6198a8ba/ |
📝 Publications | Google Scholar |
Bio
Tiana Assis is a Ph.D. student in Sustainable Development and Climate Change at the University School for Advanced Studies of Pavia, under the supervision of Professor Alessandro Caiani. Her research applies machine learning techniques to model land-use processes related to livestock production in the Brazilian Amazon, with a particular focus on the economic and policy drivers influencing carbon sink areas.
She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF) and a Master’s in Public Administration from the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM), Brazil, with a concentration in Economics, Finance, and Public Policy. She has worked in policy evaluation as a research fellow at the Brazilian Federal Agency for Graduate Education and Research (CAPES) and collaborated on projects with the Inter-American Development Bank Group (IDB).
Assis’s expertise spans economics, spatial econometrics, and impact evaluation. By integrating econometric models with satellite imagery and land-use datasets, her work supports ESA Φ-lab’s mission to develop advanced methodologies for monitoring environmental change and promoting sustainable decision-making. She is driven by a vision to design data-informed tools that strengthen environmental policies and enable more reliable, sustainable land management practices.