Visiting scholars willing to come to CREATE need to contact either Prof. Ridley or Prof. Dall’erba. Stays at CREATE are welcome under some conditions. They offer the opportunity to exchange and discuss research views with CREATE members and University of Illinois faculty and students, which can lead to a joint publication of academic papers.
Tiago Santos Telles
Tiago Santos Telles is a Researcher at the Instituto de Desenvolvimento Rural do Paraná – IAPAR-EMATER (Rural Development Institute of Paraná – IAPAR-EMATER), and an Associate Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics in the Graduate School at Universidade Estadual de Londrina (State University of Londrina). His research interests include environmental and natural resource economics, with a focus on agriculture, land use, ecosystem services, climate change, and sustainability. He uses the theory and practice of environmental, agricultural and resource economics to provide stakeholders and policymakers with insights into the cost-benefit of various strategies aimed at improving land use and soil and water conservation, emphasizing their impact on crop production and farm profitability. He received a Ph.D. in Economics from Universidade Estadual de Campinas (State University of Campinas) in 2015, and both a Ph.D. in Agricultural and Resource Economics and a B.A. in Economics from State University of Londrina in 2012 and 2007, respectively. He is a member of the Brazilian Economic Association, the Brazilian Society of Rural Economics and Sociology, and the Brazilian Society of Soil Science.
Melise Bouroullec-Machado
Dr. Melise Bouroullec-Machado is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economic Sciences, Management, and Marketing at INPT-Ecole d’Ingénieurs de Purpan, Toulouse, France. She is also a member of the AGIR – Agroecology, Innovations, and Territories research team at the National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE). She is visiting the Center for Climate, Regional, Environmental, and Trade Economics in the summer of 2024. Her research focuses on institutional economics, particularly the coordination mechanisms in innovative agri-food systems and territorialized marketing initiatives led by farmers. She is currently working on projects related to the agroecological transition in dairy supply chains and the governance of local food systems.
Xiangwei Sun
Dr. Xiangwei Sun is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Zhengzhou University in China. He was a visiting student at Regional Economics Application Laboratory (REAL) of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign over 2015-2016. His research is in regional and urban growth, interregional trade, economic evaluation of urban policy and extremely weather events, and models of spatial econometrics, multiregional input-output model and CGE models. And he is going to work on questions on climate change impact on agriculture and on the global food supply chain.
Eduardo Sanguinet
Dr. Eduardo Sanguinet holds Ph.D. in Development Economics from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS, Brazil) and Ph.D. in Applied Economics with a focus on Regional Studies from Universidad Católica del Norte (UCN, Chile) under a joint supervision agreement with dual degree recognition. He holds a Master’s degree in Rural Development from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS, Brazil) and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM, Brazil). He completed doctoral and post-doctoral internships in Economics at the Center for Regional and Urban Economics at the Faculty of Economics and Administration of the University of São Paulo (NEREUS – FEA-USP), funded by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). He has expertise in research and extension projects in the areas of regional economics, rural and environmental economics, and agrarian policies. Researches topics related to interregional and international trade, trade policies, and value chains using multi-sector models. He is a Professor at the Institute of Agricultural Economics, Universidad Austral de Chile – Chile, and the Graduate Program in Economics at the Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul – Brazil.