Bio

I am the Assistant Professor of Sustainable Land Systems in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. 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 where I was an Innovations at the Nexus of Food, Energy, and Water Systems Fellow.

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.