Biography

Working in different socioenvironmental contexts and at the intersection of ecology and anthropology, have influenced my approach and directed me towards interdisciplinary frameworks. I have a bachelor in Environmental Biology (University of Lisbon) and a PhD in Social Anthropology (Oxford Brookes University), which was followed by a post-doctoral year at the University of Geneva. My research experience was built from opportunities to work in Ecuador, Mauritania, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya and Portugal. I have deepened my experience in ethnographic research between late 2009 and 2013 while collecting data in rural Guinea-Bissau for my PhD research. My dissertation is entitled "Shape-shifting nature in a contested landscape in Guinea-Bissau", and includes sections on local livelihoods, cosmologies and oral history, perceptions of risk, local understandings of nature and nature conservation, and non-humans in witchcraft and magic. More recently my research interests also include knowledge interfaces and climate change (Kenya and Guinea-Bissau), particularly regarding the tecnology of mangrove rice farming in Guinea-Bissau. I taught at universities in Guinea-Bissau and was involved in the production of a collaborative documentary with farmers in southern Guinea-Bissau, Maboan.