Danilo Urzedo is a Human Geographer and Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia. His research examines the political geographies of environmental knowledge, technologies, and markets. Danilo completed a PhD in Human Geography at the University of Sydney and has since held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Cambridge and CSIRO. Prior to academia, he worked as a community forester in the Brazilian Amazon, bridging environmental policy and financing into place-based project implementation through partnerships with Indigenous and local communities.

Danilo is currently working with the ARC Training Centre for Healing Country in Western Australia, contributing to collaborative research on Indigenous restoration economies. His work focuses on amplifying place-based co-benefits through participatory methods that account for multiple values.

Experience

  • 2025–present
    Research fellow, University of Western Australia
  • 2022–2025
    Postdoctoral fellow , CSIRO
  • 2021–2022
    Postdoctoral fellow, University of Cambridge
  • 2014–2016
    Forest Engineer, Instituto Socioambiental

Education

  • 2020 
    The University of Sydney, PhD in Human Geography
  • 2014 
    University of Sao Paulo, Master of Science in Forest Resources
  • 2011 
    Federal University of Sao Carlos, Bachelor of Forest Engineering

Professional Memberships

  • Society for Ecological Restoration

Contact Danilo for

  • General
  • Media request
  • Speaking request
  • Consulting / Advising
  • Research collaboration
  • Research supervision