About me
I am an agricultural and resource economist focused on developing quantitative models on a range of topics including pollination, climate change, invasive species, and animal welfare. My work involves creating quantitative tools for management and policy evaluation by integrating models from economics, ecology, epidemiology, and other relevant fields. I have applied this interdisciplinary approach to various agricultural systems, such as beekeeping in the U.S. and Canada, almond production in California, citrus and walnut production in Spain, coffee farming in India, and swine and greenhouse production in Switzerland. Pollination and beekeeping economics have remained central to my research activity since my PhD but I also have expanded my tools as a data analyst with the goal of improving visualisation of complex patterns in data.
Over the past ten years, I have worked as a freelance consultant, building numerical models for a variety of clients, from small startups to government organizations. For the last two years, I have also been part of the Swiss 3R Competence Center where I conduct data analysis on the use of animals in scientific research.
I have a Master from AgroParisTech (formerly the French National Institute of Agronomy) and obtained my PhD in agricultural and resource economics at the University of California, Davis in 2010. I have been a post-doctoral researcher at the University of California Agricultural Issues Center and a lecturer and researcher at ETH Zurich and University of Bern, Switzerland.
I am always happy to talk about pollination and beekeeping, the economics and ecology of agriculture, or animal welfare, so please feel free to contact me!