Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät - Geographisches Institut

Status	Doctoral researcher
E-Mail	leticia.hissa@geo.hu-berlin.de
Office location	Rudower Chaussee 16
Phone	+49 (0)30 2093-6905
Fax	+49 (0)30 2093-6848
Postal address	Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Germany

About me

I am a Geographer, with a background in GIS and Spatial Analysis. My research interests are land use dynamics, land based climate change mitigation strategies and policy impacts assessment, with a focus on tropical areas. My doctoral project aims to quantify the contribution of past deforestation and forest recovery in the Brazilian Amazon to the carbon balance and understand how these processes influence and are influenced by current Brazilian policies related to land.

Curriculum Vitae

Since 09/2013	Doctoral Researcher. Geomatics Lab and Applied Geoinformatics Lab, HU-Berlin, Germany.
04/2014	Guest scientist at the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, INPE, Brazil.
2013-2016	Research Assistant. Geomatics Lab, HU-Berlin, Germany. Carbiocial Project
2012-2013	GIS Specialist. Municipal Government of Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
2008-2012	Research Assistant. Centro de Sensoriamento Remoto, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil.
2009-2011	M.S. in Environmental Systems Analysis and Modelling, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil.
2004-2008	B.S. in Geography, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Please find my full CV on www.linkedin.com/in/leticia-hissa 

and my publications at www.researchgate.net/profile/Leticia_Hissa

Publications

Hissa, L.B.V. et al. (2016) Historical carbon fluxes in the expanding deforestation frontier of Southern Brazilian Amazonia (1985-2012). Regional Environmental Change (Print) doi 10.1007/s10113-016-1076-2

Gollnow, F.; Goepel, J.; Hissa, L.B.V.; Schaldach, R.; Lakes, T. (2017) Scenarios of land-use change in a deforestation corridor in the Brazilian Amazon: combining two scales of analysis. Regional Environmental Change. doi 10.1007/s10113-017-1129-1.

Müller, H.; Rufin, P.; Griffiths, P.; Hissa, L.B.V.; Hostert, P. (2016) Beyond deforestation: Differences in long-term regrowth dynamics across land use regimes in southern Amazonia. Remote Sensing of Environment, 186:652-662. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2016.09.012.

Leite, C.C.; Costa, M.H.; Soares-Filho, B.S.; Hissa, L.B.V. (2012) Historical land use change and associated carbon emissions in Brazil from 1940 to 1995. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 26:GB2011-29. doi 10.1029/2011GB004133.