Dr Maria Teresa Gonzalez Valencia BSc, MSc, PhD

Dr Maria Teresa Gonzalez Valencia

Research Fellow
Birmingham Institute for Sustainability and Climate Action

Contact details

Address
Elm House
Edgbaston Park
351 Bristol Road
Birmingham
B5 7SW

Maria Teresa is an environmental economist, keen to actively contribute to society’s wellbeing by looking at the links between people and changes in their social and natural environments.

Qualifications

  • PhD in Economics, University of Birmingham, 2024
  • MSc in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics with Distinction, University of Birmingham, 2018
  • BSc in Economics and Finance, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas, 2014

Biography

Maria Teresa joined the University of Birmingham as a master’s student after completing her undergraduate degree in Peru and working in the education sector and also as consultant at The World Bank in Lima. She then rejoined the University of Birmingham as a PhD student in Economics. She successfully completed her doctoral studies, where she studied the capitalisation of wildfire risk as revealed through the housing market, as a signal of changes and differences in safety preferences following wildfire events. Since then, she worked as Research Fellow in the university for the Department of Economics at the Centre for Crime, Justice, and Policing (CCJP), where she deepened her knowledge on social conflict and crime from an economics perspective. Currently, she is Research Fellow at the Birmingham Institute for Sustainability and Climate Action (BISCA). In this role, Maria Teresa supports research engagement across the university on various aspects of the sustainability agenda (including health, finance, adaptation and resilience, and AI) and is researching on topics related to social impacts of natural disasters and environmental degradation.