I am a PhD candidate in Economics at the University of Göttingen and part of the Chair of International Economic Policy. My advisor is Krisztina Kis-Katos. Before starting my PhD, I completed a BSc and a MSc in Economics at the University of Heidelberg.

My research lies at the intersection of environmental and development economics. I combine methods from different disciplines—remote sensing, machine learning, atmospheric modeling, and landscape ecology—to measure outcomes that are difficult to observe with conventional data. My work draws on large-scale data sources, ranging from very-high-resolution satellite imagery to smartphone GPS traces covering millions of users. I study how human activity drives environmental change and how people adapt to it, with most of my research focused on tropical land use: the drivers and consequences of deforestation, the conditions under which reforestation succeeds, and the political economy of land use change.