Dr. Mariana M. de Brito
Contact
Dr. Mariana de Brito
Researcher
Thematic Area Environment and Society
Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology
Helmholtz Centre
for Environmental Research − UFZ
Permoserstr. 15
04318 Leipzig, Germany
Tel.: +49 0341 235 482149
mariana.brito@ufz.de
Professional Career
| Since 08/2019 | Post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology, UFZ, Germany |
| 08/2018 - 07/2019 | Post-doctoral researcher at the Eco-Hydrology and Water Resource Management Group, Department of Geography, University of Bonn, Germany |
| 01/2015 - 07/2018 | Ph.D. candidate at the Eco-Hydrology and Water Resource Management Group, Department of Geography, University of Bonn, Germany |
| 08/2014 - 12/2014 | Teaching Assistant at the National Space Institute, Danish Technical University, Denmark |
| 10/2010 - 07/2014 | Research Assistant at the Centre for Disaster Studies (CEPED), Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil |
Education
| 2015-2018 | Ph.D. in Geography - University of Bonn, Geography Institute, Germany (Magna cum Laude) |
| 01-02/2014 | Semester abroad - University of Freiburg, Germany (DAAD scholarship) |
| 2012-2014 | M.Sc. in Engineering with an emphasis in Environmental Sciences - Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil (GPA 10/10) |
| 2007-2011 | B.Sc. in Environmental Engineering - Lutheran University of Brazil, Brazil (GPA 9.08/10) |
Research stays
| 02-03/2019 | University of Vigo, Spain. Department of Forest Engineering. Research group of Prof. Dr. Juan Vidal Puga. Research on the spatial assessment of the costs and benefits of different land uses for flood risk reduction (COST Grant) |
| 11-12/2017 | Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria. Institute of Geography. Research group of Prof. Dr. Glenda García-Santos. Use of system dynamics for modelling human-environment interactions |
| 05-04/2016 | Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Department of Civil Engineering. Research group of Prof. Dr. Luis Carlos Pinto da S. F. Participatory modelling of flood vulnerability (CAPES Scholarship) |
Selected publications
de Brito, M.M., Kuhlicke, C., Marx, A. (2020) Near-real-time drought impact assessment: A text mining approach on the 2018/19 drought in Germany. Environmental Research Letters. doi:org/10.1088/1748-9326/aba4ca
de Brito, M.M.*, Amoradie, A.*, Evers, M., Bossa, A., Lumor, M., Norman, C., Yacouba, Y., Hounkpe, J. (2020) Current flood risk management practices in Ghana: Gaps and opportunities for improving resilience. Journal of Flood Risk Management. doi:10.1111/jfr3.12664
de Brito, M.M., Almoradie, A., Evers, M. (2019) Spatially-explicit sensitivity and uncertainty analysis in a MCDA-based flood vulnerability model. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, doi:10.1080/13658816.2019.1599125.
de Brito, M.M., Evers, M., Almoradie, A. (2018) Participatory flood vulnerability assessment: a multi-criteria approach. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 22, 373-390, doi:10.5194/hess-22-373-2018.
García-Santos, G., de Brito, M.M., Höllermann, B., Taft, L., Almoradie, A., Evers, M. (2018) Methodology to explore emergent behaviours of the interactions between water resources and ecosystem under a pluralistic approach. Proceedings of the Int. Association of Hydrological Sciences, 95, 1-5, doi:10.5194/piahs-95-1-2018.
Bormann, H., de Brito, M.M., Charchousi, D., Chatzistratis, D., David, A., Groser, P.F., Kebschull, J., Konis, A. Koutalakis, P., Koraki, A., Krauzig, N., Meier, J., Meliadou, V., Meinhardt, M., Munnelly, K., Stephan, C., de Vos, L.F., Dietrich, J., Tzoraki, O. (2018) Impact of hydrological modellers’ decisions and attitude on the performance of a calibrated conceptual catchment model: results from a ‘modelling contest’. Hydrology, 5, 64; doi:10.3390/hydrology5040064.
Ramos, P.A.R., Oliveira, G.G., de Brito, M.M., Silva, L.C.P. (2018) Methodological proposal for flood vulnerability mapping. Anuário do Instituto de Geociências, 41, 281-291, doi: 10.11137/2018_3_281_291.
de Brito, M.M., Evers, M., Höllermann, B. (2017) Prioritization of flood vulnerability, coping capacity and exposure indicators through the Delphi technique: A case study in Taquari-Antas basin, Brazil. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 24, 119-128, doi:10.1016/j.ijdrr.2017.05.027.
de Brito, M.M., Weber, E.J., Silva Filho, L.C.P. (2017) Multi-criteria analysis applied to landslide susceptibility mapping. Revista Brasileira de Geomorfologia, 17, 719-735, doi:10.20502/rbg.v18i4.1117.
de Brito, M.M., Weber, E.J., Krigger, V.S., Leitzke, F.P. (2017) Analysis of landslide conditioning factors in Porto Alegre municipality based on historical data. Brazilian Journal of Cartography, 68, 1853-1872.
de Brito, M.M., Weber, E.J., Passuello, A. (2017) Multicriteria analysis applied to landslide susceptibility mapping: a case study in Cascata District, Porto Alegre, RS. Revista Brasileira de Geografia Física, 10, 12-24, doi:10.5935/1984-2295.20170048.
de Brito, M.M., Evers, M. (2016) Multi-criteria decision making for flood risk management: a survey of the current state-of-the-art. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 16, 1019-1033, doi:10.5194/nhess-16-1019-2016.
de Brito, M.M. (2015) Identification of landslides scars in the Eastern Edge of the Paraná Basin based on Landsat 5-TM images. Revista Brasileira de Geografia Física, 8, 56-70. doi:10.26848/rbgf.v8.1.p056-070.
* Both authors contributed equally to this paper
Travel Grants and Awards
| 2019 | Early Career Short Term Scientific Mission Grant - European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST). Title: Analysis of the costs and benefits of different land uses for flood risk reduction through game theory. Link: http://www.land4flood.eu/mariana-in-vigo/ |
| 2019 | Resilient flood risk management Summer School. Cologne - DAAD |
| 2019 | Stakeholder engagement workshop, Land4floods Project. Thessaloniki, Greece - COST |
| 2019 | Citizen science & social innovations Workshop. Kaunas, Lithuania - COST |
| 2019 | Digital transformations in citizen science & social innovation Training School. Fiesole, Italy - COST |
| 2018 | Coastal floods and river hazards and management strategies Summer School. Aachen, Germany - BMBF, ICGS and DAAD |
| 2017 | Best oral presentation and travel award - Dangerous Landscapes Conference. Hannover, Germany - Volkswagen Stiftung |
| 2017 | Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe (AGILE) Conference. Wageningen, Netherlands - ESRI and AGILE |
| 2017 | Flood risk management Summer School. Lesbos, Greece - DAAD |
| 2016 | THESys Summer School - Transformative human-environment research & participatory methods: from co-production to co-producing. Berlin, Germany - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
| 2016 | International promovieren in Deutschland – für alle (IPID4all). Viena, Austria - DAAD |
| 2015 | Citizen science for clean coasts Training School. Galway, Ireland - COST |
| 2015 | Human sensor and GIS for disaster risk management Training School. Coimbra, Portugal - COST |