Melissa Caldeira Brant de Souza Lima joined the Wittgenstein Centre as a Pre-Doc researcher in November 2016. She is a student in the PhD Programme of Economics and Social Sciences at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU), focusing her research on education, population dynamics and projection.
Prior to taking up this position she was a guest researcher at BIB (Germany) in the “Family and Fertility” group. She has worked in Brazil as a consultant and as analyst for social projects and policies, educational policies and public opinion surveys. During her Masters she participated in the Internship Programme of the International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (IPC-IG/UNDP) with Social Protection policies, particularly with Family Agriculture. She holds a Master degree in Demography from the Centre of Development and Regional Planning (CEDEPLAR-UFMG, Brazil) and a Bachelor degree in Social Sciences from the same university. (Text from Wittgenstein Centre webpage)
SANTOS, Simone Maria; LIMA, Melissa C.B.S.; MIRANDA-RIBEIRO, Paula. Problematizando as associações existentes entre características sociodemográficas e a violência entre jovens do Ensino Médio de cidades da região metropolitana de Belo Horizonte MG (Problematizing the associations between sociodemographic characteristics and the violence amog students in High School from cities of the Metropolitan area of Belo Horizonte) In: Laura L. Rodriguez Wong; Jhon Antón Sánchez. (Org.). Situación de la población afro-descendiente e indígena en América Latina – puntos de reflexión para el debate sobre Cairo + 20 = Situação da população afro descendente e indígena na América Latina – pontos de reflexão para o debate sobre o Cairo + 20 / Belo Horionte: ALAP, 2014.237 p. (Serie e-Investigaciones; 4). ISBN: 978-85-62016-21-9
LIMA, Melissa C.B.S. Human capital and the cohort parity progression ratios in Germany. European Population Conference (EPC), Mainz, Germany, 2016 (Book of abstracts / http://epc2016.princeton.edu/uploads/161210).
LIMA, Melissa C.B.S.. Family Arrangements, Support and Academic Success: An Analysis for Public School in Minas Gerais. In: XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology - Facing an Unequal World Challenges for Global Sociology, Yokohama, Japan, 2014 (Book of abstracts https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/wc2014/webprogram/Paper68501.html).
Pre-Doc position (Project researcher) at Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital/ W.U. (Vienna University of Business and Administration)