About

I am a first-year doctoral student at the University of Oxford’s Environmental Change Institute and a member of St Edmund Hall. Before starting my DPhil (which is Oxford-speak for PhD), I worked as a Research Assistant in Climate Compatible Growth at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, where I remain an associate researcher. I hold additional affiliations with Oxford Net Zero and the Institute of New Economic Thinking at the Oxord Martin School. Before coming to Oxford, I worked with the Development Economics Group at ETH Zurich and studied at UNU-MERIT and Maastricht University. You can view my CV here.

My research interests lie at the intersection of environmental and development economics, or envirodevonomics for short. This means I study how development and environmental sustainability can reinforce each other in low- and middle-income country settings. In my dissertation, I use experimental and observational study designs to better understand how agricultural and food systems transformation can help lift people out of poverty.

Curiosity, caffeine, and conversation fuel most everything I do. One of my favourite platforms to provide all three of them is the Environmental Economics Seminar Series which I help organise. Most of my work time is spent coding in R and writing up findings in Markdown. Sometimes, I write a blog post to take note of something I might otherwise forget. In my screen-free time, you might find me running around outside, learning a new language, cooking, reading, listening to music, or shooting photos on film or megabytes ¹.

If any of the above resonates with you, say hi!