Mariana Traldi

Holds a degree in Legal and Social Sciences/Law from the Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas (2007), as well as a Bachelors (2011) and a Teaching Degree (2014) in Geography from the University of Campinas (Unicamp). She earned her Master's degree (2014) and Ph.D. (2019) in Geography from the Graduate Program in Geography at Unicamp, including a doctoral research period (20182019) as a visiting scholar at Texas AM University (sandwich Ph.D.).Currently, she is a full-time professor of Geography at the Federal Institute of São Paulo (IFSP), Hortolândia campus, and a collaborating faculty member in the Graduate Program in Legal Sciences at the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB).Her research and teaching focus on Human, Economic, Political, and Energy Geography. Her areas of expertise include the production of space, land rent, accumulation by dispossession, land lease contracts for energy production, renewable energy, energy transition, and decarbonization processes.She is an active member of several research groups, including the Urban Environmental Issues Group (Unicamp), the Wind Energy Observatory (UFC), the Research and Study Group in Geography of Energy (IFRN), and the Dom Quixote Research and Extension Group (UFPB). She also collaborates with the academic cooperation project between the Law programs at the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB) and Liaoning University, China. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)