As of October 2025, I am an agricultural economist and researcher in the Food Systems Economics and Policy Group at ETH Zurich. Since 2021, I am also a researcher at Cornell University,   where I collaborate in the Equitable Agricultural Research Lab. 

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.