Mariana Pereira Guimaraes

Mariana Pereira Guimarães is a Fox International Fellow (2015/16) at Yale University from The Engineering School of the University of São Paulo, where she is a Master’s Candidate in Water Resources. She has a Bachelor degree in Architecture and Urban Planning and a second degree in Civil Engineering from the University of São Paulo through a dual-degree program. In São Paulo, she has worked as a research assistant at the Human Settlements and Housing Laboratory at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of São Paulo. During her undergrad studies, she worked as an intern at the Decision Support Systems Laboratory at Poli-USP with hydrology and hydrodynamics modelling for flood control. In 2013 she received an Innovation Grant from USP and worked as an intern at the Harvard Graduate School of Design on the “A Sustainable Future for the Exumas” project. She has also received funding from Mitacs Globalink to develop a project on Food Security and Urban Agriculture at Ryerson University. Her Master’s thesis focus in water quality and urban renewal in informal settlements located in Environmental Protection Areas. Mariana plans to pursue a PhD in the field of Water Resources in Developing Countries and to become a specialist and Professor in this field. Her research interests varies from sanitation to urban planning, urban drainage, GIS and hydrodynamics computational modelling.