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| Nov 29, 2025 | Together with the GLUE Lab, we’ve been developing a project to map cattle presence on embargoed lands in the Brazilian Amazon. Our analysis of thousands of embargoed areas in Pará shows that over a quarter still contain cattle, even though these lands are legally suspended from productive use. This work highlights major gaps in enforcement and shows how the cattle frontier continues to advance into areas that are supposed to be recovering forest. Learn more from the GLUE research insight we shared on LinkedIn. |
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| Jun 10, 2025 | I attended the European Society for Rural Sociology (ESRS) Congress 2025 in Riga and presented my research on gender and land-use dynamics in the Brazilian Amazon, contributing to discussions on social inequalities and environmental change in rural regions. |
| Jun 1, 2025 | Our new study, “The food security of residents and refugees of Ukraine after the Russian invasion”, is now published in Nature Scientific Reports. Using original survey data, we examine how the 2022 Russian invasion affected food security among Ukrainians who remained in the country as well as those who fled abroad. The results show high levels of food insecurity, with substantial differences across income groups, locations, and displacement status. The findings highlight the persistent humanitarian impacts of conflict and displacement, even beyond immediate war zones. 🔗 Read the full article here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-99285-1 |
| Apr 1, 2025 | I’ve started a postdoc at the Geography Department at the University of Cambridge, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation! 🌍🔬 Looking forward to what’s ahead! |
| Dec 5, 2024 | I attended PyData Global and gave a talk about Using AI to Spot Deforestation-related Cows on Satellite Images. |
| Nov 18, 2024 | Together with Erasmus zu Ermgassen, Marcos Adami, Michel Chaves and Andrea Garcia we published a commentary on ‘Halting the expansion of pasture in the Brazilian Amazon’ in OneEarth. |
| Oct 31, 2024 | Our preprint on cattle counting in the Amazon with the title 'Tackling deforestation with deep-learning-based cattle counts on satellite images' is on Research Square!! |
| Jun 17, 2024 | Together with Rachael Garrett and Yann le Polain de Warox we published ‘Characterizing culture’s influence in land systems’ in Nature Sustainability!! |
| Mar 1, 2024 | I started a postdoctoral position at the GLUE lab with Prof. Holly Gibbs and her team at the University of Wisconsin in Madison! |
| Feb 28, 2024 | My doctoral thesis with the title ‘Cattle, Culture, and Feminist Ecologies in the Brazilian Amazon: Advances in Theoretical and AI-Driven Land System Science’ is now online. |
| Jan 31, 2024 | Our preprint on ‘Tackling deforestation with deep-learning-based cattle counts on satellite images’ is now on Research Square! Together with Jan Wegner, Vivien Sainte Fare Garnot, and Francisco Rocha-Gomes, we developed a deep learning method to count cattle from high-resolution satellite imagery in the Brazilian Amazon, revealing important patterns of cattle intensity and its relationship with deforestation. 🛰️ 🐄 |
| Nov 28, 2023 | I defended my PhD thesis with the title ‘Cattle, culture and feminist ecologies in the Brazilian Amazon: Advances in theoretical and AI-driven land system science’   with Rachael Garrett, Jan Dirk Wegner Johanna Jacobi and Matthew Hayek in my thesis committee. Check out the impressions on X and Linkedin . |
| Nov 9, 2023 | I am part of the science committee for the Global Land Programme Open Science Meeting in Oaxaca, Mexico in 2024. Submit a session here. |
| Nov 9, 2023 | I gave a talk a t the IED seminar at ETH Zurich on AI-based cattle detection and land system dynamics in the Brazilian Rainforest |
| Oct 12, 2023 | I joined the FLARE annual meeting in Nairobi and gave a talk with the title ‘Gender dimensions in the Brazilian cattle ranching sector’. |