About GTAP: PhD Students
Lauren Benavidez
Spring 2026
Dissertation: "Three essays at the intersection of food systems, economics and climate change"
Interests/Skills:
- International Trade and development
- Food security and nutrition
- Land use
- Climate change
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Elizabeth Fraysse
Summer 2025
Dissertation: "Three Essays - Navigating the Economics of Fertilizer"
Interests/Skills:
- Climate change
- Agricultural policy
- Fertilizer
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Maria Filipa Seara Pereira
Spring 2026
Dissertation: "Essays on climate change: Impacts and adaptation"
Interests/Skills:
- Climate change: impacts and adaptation
- International trade and trade policy
- CGE modeling
- Microsimulation
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Pattawee Puangchit
Summer 2025
Dissertation: "Impacts of the Non-tariff Measures and Regional Trade Agreement on Trade Flows: Analysis of ASEAN Economic Community"
Interests/Skills:
- International Trade
- Trade Policies and Non-tariff measures/barriers
- CGE modeling
- Agribusiness Marketing
Profile
Kavitha Srikanth
Spring 2027
Dissertation: TBD
Interests/Skills:
- Environmental and Agricultural Economics
- Land Use
- Environmental policies
- Sustainable development
- Climate change adaptation and mitigation
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