 So I'm from Brazil. I did my undergraduate in economics at St. Paul's School of Economics. I was very interested in taxation issues and policy issues. I worked for the government there and then I came to Europe, to the Netherlands to do a Masters and continue working on policy. I started working on environmental economics and then I decided I wanted to do a PhD and pursue an academic career. Then I came to TSE to do that, starting with the ETE Masters and then on to the PhD which I'm about to finish now. So I wanted to do a PhD program in economics and in the topics I was interested in which was taxation and environmental economics. So I applied to TSE because it was a very famous place, very highly ranked in international research rankings and it has very interesting people working on taxation and environmental issues. So I already knew TSE because of its reputation so I was very happy to be accepted to do its PhD program. Also the PhD program gives a very good training and preparation for students, very high level of education and a good preparation for the job market and it's also a fully funded PhD program. So all of this was very attractive for me at the time. So the main asset at TSE in my opinion is the size of the department. There are lots of research groups, lots of people doing different kinds of research. They have their weekly seminars, workshops, conferences. So we meet a lot of people, make friends, co-authors, people to work with and discover new research avenues to take in our PhD. The PhD program also is very demanding of students, very challenging for us but it also means we get to know what it is to do the best research we can do and they also take the job market very seriously so they give unwavering support to students in that very tense and stressful period. So for me the quality of life in Toulouse is very high and one of the aspects that I really appreciate here is the historical and cultural heritage of the city. It's really beautiful with its museums and churches and the river and the landscape and it's very hard to understate how beautiful it always is and you can't have enough of it. But on top of this the city also has excellence in science with its universities, aerospace industry, Airbus and makes it a very interesting place to be very international and enriching. So as a result of the job market I'll be going to Brazil for one year to work as an environmental economist with deforestation issues for J. Paul, a large research organization and after that I'll become an assistant professor at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. So I'm very happy with the outcome of the job market.