Academic experience
2022- Post-doctoral fellowship at UCLouvain
Oct 2018 - 2021 F.R.S.-FNRS post-doctoral fellowship at UCLouvain
Feb - Oct 2018 Post-doctoral fellowship at UCLouvain
2014 – 2017 PhD in Food Security, Conservation Science Group, University of Cambridge.
2013 – 2014 MRes in Food Security, University of Cambridge.
2007-2013 Veterinary Medicine (VetMB) at Selwyn College, University of Cambridge.
2009-2010 Year-long study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), cross-registered at Harvard University, USA.
Research funding
2022 co-PI on 800k EUR grant (2022-2025) from NICFI to support the 'do Pasto ao Prato' project.
2022 16k EUR 'crédit de recherche' grant from the FRS-FNRS to support the 'do Pasto ao Prato' project.
2020 Named researcher on Biodiversa funded SUSTAIN-COCOA project, with 500k sub-grant to UCLouvain/Trase. 18.4% success rate.
2018 F.R.S.-FNRS post-doctoral fellowship. 26% success rate.
2013 BBSRC Doctoral Training Program funding. Less than 5% of applicants admitted.
Other research experience
2015 IIASA Young Scientist Summer Program (YSSP)
2012-2013 Zoological Society of London
2011 Cornell Leadership Program for Veterinary Students
Teaching experience
Experience as reviewer
I have reviewed articles for AIMS Agriculture & Food, Applied Geography, Conservation Biology, Conservation Letters, Ecological Economics, Environmental Research Letters, Food Reviews International, Global Environmental Change, Global Food Security, Journal of Forest Policy & Economics, Journal of Land Use Science, Nature Ecology & Evolution, Nature Food, Regional Environmental Change, Resources, Conservation & Recycling, and Science of the Total Environment.
Non-research employment
Languages
2022- Post-doctoral fellowship at UCLouvain
- I co-founded and manage the do Pasto ao Prato initiative.
- Research on supply chain transparency in collaboration with Trase.
Oct 2018 - 2021 F.R.S.-FNRS post-doctoral fellowship at UCLouvain
- Research on supply chain transparency & sustainable livestock.
Feb - Oct 2018 Post-doctoral fellowship at UCLouvain
- Research on supply chain transparency, zero deforestation commitments, and the inaugural Trase yearbook.
- Funded by FORMAS Grant n° 2016-351, "Assessing the influence of leakage on the effectiveness of interventions to improve the sustainability of agricultural commodity supply chains".
2014 – 2017 PhD in Food Security, Conservation Science Group, University of Cambridge.
- Title: "Strategies for sustainable livestock in Brazil and the European Union".
- Awarded the ZSL Thomas Henry Huxley Award and Marsh Prize, an annual award recognizing a PhD thesis from a UK University which has made an original scientific contribution.
- Full funding provided by the British Biosciences Research Council (BBSRC).
- Supervisor: Professor Andrew Balmford (FRS) in the Department of Zoology.
2013 – 2014 MRes in Food Security, University of Cambridge.
- Rotated between research groups in the Department of Veterinary Medicine and Zoology, with research projects on sustainable sources of animal feed and livestock-associated zoonotic disease.
2007-2013 Veterinary Medicine (VetMB) at Selwyn College, University of Cambridge.
- First class; Special Merit awarded in small animal and farm animal medicine (top 10% of year).
- Roslin award for the outstanding graduate in Farm Animal Medicine and Surgery.
- 2010 BA in Preclinical Veterinary Medicine, Deemed Honours.
2009-2010 Year-long study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), cross-registered at Harvard University, USA.
- G.P.A. of 5.0/5.0.
- Courses studied include Development Economics, Sustainable Development, Strategies for Sustainable Business, Conservation Genetics & Ecology.
Research funding
2022 co-PI on 800k EUR grant (2022-2025) from NICFI to support the 'do Pasto ao Prato' project.
2022 16k EUR 'crédit de recherche' grant from the FRS-FNRS to support the 'do Pasto ao Prato' project.
2020 Named researcher on Biodiversa funded SUSTAIN-COCOA project, with 500k sub-grant to UCLouvain/Trase. 18.4% success rate.
2018 F.R.S.-FNRS post-doctoral fellowship. 26% success rate.
2013 BBSRC Doctoral Training Program funding. Less than 5% of applicants admitted.
Other research experience
2015 IIASA Young Scientist Summer Program (YSSP)
- Completed the IIASA Young Scientist Summer Program, a three-month long opportunity to work with leading scientists working in environmental research. Based in Vienna, this required primary research, attending workshops, and presenting my research findings to an audience of world renown scientists. One of 54 PhD students accepted from 337 applications. Supported by a German government £1,200 grant.
2012-2013 Zoological Society of London
- Two-months research project at the Garden Bird Health initiative, teasing apart the epidemiology of finch trichomonosis, an emerging infectious disease that is estimated to have caused a 1.5 million decline (35%) in the breeding population of greenfinches in the UK between 2005 and 2009. Identified which species carry the infection aclinically, thereby promoting the spread of infection at shared garden feeders. This work was subsequently published in Parasitology (see "Publications").
2011 Cornell Leadership Program for Veterinary Students
- One of twenty-five veterinary students selected to attend the Cornell Leadership Program for Veterinary Students. I attended workshops run by leading veterinary researchers on topics as diverse as leadership, translational medicine, and bioterrorism, and completed a two-month research project looking at how sperm form their tails. I was the recipient of a £7,129 Wellcome Trust grant to support my attendance.
Teaching experience
- Lecturing: Statistical modelling for Geography, 3rd year undergraduate course at UCLouvain. 2-hrs teaching for 13-weeks (2018). Responsible for selecting the syllabus, liaising with teaching assistant to ensure the constructive alignment of the theoretical and practical classes, setting the coursework and final exam, and teaching. Course covered introductory frequentist statistics, generalised linear modelling, data reduction techniques, geostatistics, and counterfactual estimation.
- Two years of small-group teaching (1 hour/week per group, with multiple groups of 2-4 students) of the final-year undergraduate course, Conservation Science at the University of Cambridge.
- Supervised undergraduate projects on (a) carbon emissions from ruminant grazing and (b) uncertainties in historical changes in feed conversion efficiencies. The first contributed to Garnett et al. (see publications) and the other will be written up for submission to a peer-review journal.
- I am accredited as an Associate Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy, after completing the Teaching Associate Program in July 2017. This was a year-long program involving coursework on the theory and practice of teaching, plus several in-person evaluated teaching sessions and lectures (ca. 3 hrs course material per week).
Experience as reviewer
I have reviewed articles for AIMS Agriculture & Food, Applied Geography, Conservation Biology, Conservation Letters, Ecological Economics, Environmental Research Letters, Food Reviews International, Global Environmental Change, Global Food Security, Journal of Forest Policy & Economics, Journal of Land Use Science, Nature Ecology & Evolution, Nature Food, Regional Environmental Change, Resources, Conservation & Recycling, and Science of the Total Environment.
Non-research employment
- Three-month Internship (Jan-April 2017) at FEFAC, the European Animal Feed Manufacturers' Association. Produced a position paper on how to meet corporate and national commitments towards zero net deforestation in commodity supply chains. Attended meetings hosted in and around the European Parliament, and presented my findings to representatives from international companies and national associations.
- Four weeks at the veterinary practice "Animals Are Us" in London in 2013. Managed a team of nurses and performed consults and surgery across four branch practices in west London, including sole charge work. I dealt with clients both directly and over the phone, and worked efficiently to admit, diagnose, and treat six patients per hour. Cases ranged from cats and dogs to pythons and pigeons. Invited back for further work, but did not accept.
- Externship in ruminant medicine, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich in August 2013. Part of a team responsible for cattle and sheep orthopaedic and medical cases.
Languages
- I speak fluent English and Danish, and speak business-proficient Portuguese. I speak conversational French, Dutch, and German.