I am an Agricultural Economist and Research Associate (equivalent to a non-tenure-track assistant professor) at Cornell University, where I collaborate in the Equitable Agricultural Research Lab. I am also a visiting scholar in the Food Systems Economics and Policy group at ETH Zurich.

My research challenges assumptions about participatory research and farmers' engagement, revealing role and impact of farmers' knowledge in the process of adopting a new technology, technique or process. 

My contributions span the academic fields of inclusive and gender-intentional method design, causal inference, intra-household research and food security studies. Using quantitative and qualitative methods, I analyze primary data from surveys, experiments, and interviews with farmers engaged in participatory research, at the household and intra-household level, alongside secondary data. In love with field work, I have conducted several primary data collections in Malawi, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Mozambique, Burkina Faso and Italy.