I am a post-growth economist working on exploring broad sustainability issues in the Anthropocene. My research focuses on ecological compensation, no net loss / net gain, environmental and conservation psychology (shifting baseline syndrome and beyond), human well-being and social justice.
I am particularly interested in (i) improving the effectiveness of incentive-based conservation instruments such as payment for ecosystem services and biodiversity offsetting, (ii) developing conservation strategies that can lead to the desired outcomes from both nature and people perspectives, and (iii) understanding the socio-psychological mechanisms behind human attitude and behaviour towards the environment.
My DPhil project concentrates on understanding the dynamic consequences of environmental change for well-being in the context of ecological compensation and no net loss, under the supervision of Prof. Dame E.J. Milner-Gulland, Dr. Joseph W. Bull, Dr. Sophus zu Ermgassen, and Dr. Julia Baker (Mott MacDonald), in collaboration with Dr. Catalina Munteanu (Humboldt).
As part of my DPhil project, I completed a project on Biodiversity Net Gain and People's Well-being with the Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management and Balfour Beatty, and led the human well-being section. I have also collaborated widely with researchers from urban planning to machine learning, and have published papers in leading journals of my field.
Prior to my DPhil, I completed my environmental economics degree from London School of Economics, where I worked on testing the effect of audio-visual media on donation behaviours through economic experiments, under the supervision of Prof. Susana Mourato, in collaboration with Prof. Ming K. Lim (Adam Smith Business School).
