Matheus Lacerda

Matheus Souza Lacerda is a Visiting PhD Student at the MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy (CS3), under the supervision of Professor Angelo Gurgel. He is a PhD candidate in Economic Development at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil, and is affiliated with the Interdisciplinary Center for Energy Planning (NIPE).

His research focuses on the economic and environmental impacts of biofuels, energy transition, and climate change. He uses computable general equilibrium (CGE) models to investigate the interactions between biofuel production, agricultural markets, land-use change, greenhouse gas emissions, and economic development.