I am an environmental social scientist interested in the interface between environmental policy and human development. I currently hold a Spanish government-funded 5-year ”Ramón y Cajal” fellowship at the Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. I am also an associate lecturer at UAB’s Department of Economics and Economics History and at the Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge. Before then, I was a senior research fellow at UEA’s School of International Development and a researcher at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research.

My research concerns the interface of climate, energy and land-use governance, including the analysis of agrofuels’ expansion, Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) and forest carbon offset programs, as well as other climate policy related instruments, such as Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+). I have undertaken fieldwork in Mexico, Belize and South Africa and I am starting new research projects in other Latin American and African countries. My teaching addresses a wide range of topics and debates in the area of ecological economics, political ecology and global environmental policy at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels in the UAB (since 2011) and the University of Cambridge (since 2009), respectively.

I am a member of the International Advisory Board of The Journal of Peasant Studies, the International Society for Ecological Economics, the International Association for the Study of the Commons and a member of the Executive Committee of Catalonia’s Experts Group on Climate Change.  I am also a Lead Author for the 'Sustainable Development and Equity' of Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 5th Assessment Report (2010-2014).