I am an interdisciplinary researcher, focusing on how extractivism and climate change impact peatlands, glaciers and water in the Andes of Chile and Peru. I am interested in how to study and respond to environmental transformations in a way that challenges, rather than entrenches, existing inequalities and coloniality. My research sits at the intersection of political ecology, science and technology studies, and critical remote sensing. I specialise in interdisciplinary research, integrating ethnographic and participatory methods with physical geography to address socioenvironmental injustices.

I am currently a Senior Research Associate on the ERC-Funded PeatSense Project (PI: Naomi Millner). My research is motivated by critical concern with what is done in the name of science. Particularly, I explore how science, policy and law interact in practice, and how these systems often fail to address environmental crises while foreclosing possibilities for just socio-environmental futures. I am interested in how creative practices can help address the challenge of imagining how to live, thrive and organise beyond colonial capitalism.

I recently completed my PhD at the University of Exeter (2022-2025), titled: “There is no relation between science and justice”: Geographies of glacier harms and water scarcity in the context of global extractivism in Chile’. This project was funded by the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Environmental Intelligence (EICDT), and supervised by the interdisciplinary team of Dr Steven Palmer, Dr Ernesto Schwartz-Marin, Dr Sally Rangecroft, and Professor Stephan Harrison.

Before my PhD, I completed a training year as part of the EICDT at the University of Exeter, where I studied critical social science analysis of how AI and big data are used to address environmental challenges. During this year I also trained in remote sensing and machine learning. In 2021, I graduated from the University of Cambridge with First Class Honours with Distinction in BA Geography.