Overview

I am an environmental and agricultural economist specialized in using satellite data techniques to gain new insights in economics. I am an Assistant Professor in economics at the University of Geneva, which I joined with a 2023 SNF Starting Grant. I obtained my PhD from UC Davis- Agricultural Economics, was a post-doctoral Fellow at Stanford's Center for Food Security and the Environment, and a Research Associate at the Environmental Policy Lab at ETH Zurich.

In my research harnessing the impressive progress of satellite technologies, I studied the dynamics of agricultural expansion over two million fields in the US, analyzed new solutions for agricultural risk management in the US and in Kenya, and am currently investigating policies to reduce deforestation in the Amazon and Indonesia.

At the methodological level, another part of my research focuses on the econometric challenges raised by such big data. I have been working on adjusting satellite prediction techniques for causal inference and developing a new asymptotic theory for the ultra-high dimensionality encountered with satellite data.