I am agroecologist with a background in sustainable urban and rural farming systems, particularly in sustainable resource management. I have a great interest in expanding my knowledge of sustainable management and the use of natural features to address socio-ecological issues.

My research

My research focuses on understanding the underlying mechanisms that drive the cause-and-effect relationship between biodiversity conservation and climate mitigation.

Currently, I am working on an interdisciplinary project under the Agenda 2030 about nature-based solutions at the health-biodiversity-climate change nexus. Within this project, I focus on developing a conceptual framework for understating how nature-based solutions create synergies or trade-offs between biodiversity conservation and climate change mitigation. I will synthesize existing evidence to understand shared drivers and causal links influencing biodiversity and ecosystem processes. In particular, I am looking into the mechanistic role of biodiversity that may affect the capacity of nature-based solutions to offer optimal, multiple benefits and withstand global change.

About me

Before coming to Lund University, I did a Postdoc at Linköping University, exploring the potential role of Urban agriculture in promoting sustainable resource management and multifunctionality in the cities. I also have a short-term Postdoc experience at Wageningen University in the Farming Systems Ecology group, identifying agroecological crop traits for designing diversified cropping systems, and explicitly performing a meta-analysis on diversified vegetable production. During my PhD project, I investigated the effects of crop diversification practices on the functioning of agroecosystems in southern Sweden. In collaboration with other researchers and PhD students from Europe’s ecosystem research network, I have been working on demonstrating dependencies between humanity and nature, using the nitrogen cycle as a case study to show direct and indirect relationships.