Where meaning breaks between languages, measurement follows.
An open line of inquiry — quieter than the product work, but the same throughline: what does it cost, in evidence, when a concept has to cross a language to be counted?
My research has always been about the sea — and about meaning crossing languages. It began with maritime sovereignty and ocean governance: the East China Sea island disputes, and Brazil's 4.5-million-km² "Blue Amazon" exclusive economic zone. It now turns to a related question at the same coastline — how the values people hold for the ocean are measured across languages, and whether the instruments used to capture them keep their meaning in translation. Trained as a geographer (UFF) with postgraduate training in translation, and working today in multilingual AI evaluation, I study where meaning shifts between languages, and what that shift means for how ocean values are compared across cultures.
- B.Sc. Geography — Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), a Brazilian federal university, 2016–2019.
- Postgraduate specialization (lato sensu) in English Translation — Estácio de Sá, 2023. The formal grounding for treating cross-language semantic equivalence as a measurable research object — the methodological core of the current work.
- Founder — GAEGEO (Grupo de Altos Estudos em Geopolítica do Extremo Oriente), a former certified research group at UFF, 2019.
- 60,000+ words of published professional translation — technical, academic, and literary; EN↔PT-BR.
- Mandarin study — National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan, 2024.
- Book chapter · 2020
"Contenção no Mar da China Oriental: o caso das ilhas Diaoyu/Senkaku."
In M. Rocha & E. de Lima Figueiredo (eds.), O Protagonismo da China no Século 21 (Niterói: LUZES, 2020), pp. 769–779. Sole author.
On why high maritime-trade flows have dampened armed conflict over the disputed East China Sea islands despite a tense geopolitical standoff.
Read (PDF) → - Conference paper · 2019
"A Geoestratégia de Defesa da Amazônia Azul sob o signo da crise fiscal brasileira."
XVI Congresso Acadêmico sobre Defesa Nacional (CADN), Ministério da Defesa, 2019. First author.
On the governance and defense of Brazil's "Blue Amazon" maritime EEZ — its marine resources, biodiversity, and blue-economy potential — under fiscal constraint.
Read (PDF) → - Undergraduate thesis (monografia) · 2019
"A disputa geopolítica sino-japonesa pela soberania das ilhas Diaoyu/Senkaku."
B.Sc. Geography, UFF, 2019. Advisor: Carlos Alberto Franco da Silva.
A geopolitical study of the Diaoyu/Senkaku dispute, combining Anglo-Japanese source literature with cartographic analysis of live AIS maritime-traffic data.
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Maritime Strategy (Estratégia Marítima) — FEMAR (Fundação de Estudos do Mar), in cooperation with the Brazilian Naval War College (Escola de Guerra Naval), 2019.