Sabrina Sigel is a PhD candidate in Economic History and a teaching assistant at the University of Geneva. She works under the supervision of Prof. Juan H. Flores Zendejas and is affiliated with the Global Studies Institute, the Department of History, Economics and Society, and the Paul Bairoch Institute of Economic History. In the Spring 2023 semester, she was a visiting PhD student at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, and in Fall 2024, she was a Fellow at the History Department of Harvard University.

Her thesis investigates the environmental costs of coffee-driven development in São Paulo, Brazil, from the 1850s to the 1930s. Her research interests lie at the intersection of economic and environmental history, the history of economic and ecological thought, and the history of transatlantic trade.

In 2017, she earned a Master’s degree in International Economic History from the University of Geneva, with a dissertation on the transatlantic financial ties of a Hamburg merchant between 1884 and 1905. Before beginning her doctoral research, she worked as a historian for the Swiss bank Lombard Odier and co-authored the book Lombard Odier – 222 Years of Innovation (2018).