Bio

I am the Assistant Professor of Sustainable Land Systems in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. I am also an affiliate of the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics and the Center for Climatatic Research, and editorial board member of Land Economics. Prior to joining the faculty of Nelson I was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Global Policy Lab at Stanford University and I earned a PhD in Agricultural & Resource Economics with a designated emphasis in Development Engineering from University of California, Berkeley.

I study questions related to how agricultural systems around the world interact with the environment, often using remote sensing and machine learning tools which I sometimes help develop. My current projects include quantifying the environmental benefits of conservation agriculture adoption in Mexico, re-examining the effects of China's Household Responsibility System using historical satellite imagery, and exploring how climate change interacts with the market for agricultural land in the United States.