I am a human geographer who focuses on urban geography.

I am an urban geographer and a Research fellow in the EU’s Marie Sklodowska Curie Program, on a project titled: Weaponizing Social Housing in Rio de Janeiro and Medellín.  My research focuses on housing and securitization in urban Latin America and beyond.  I explore emerging forms of governability in the urban peripheries of Medellin and Rio de Janerio.  While my project is located at the  University of Amsterdam, I am Visiting Scholar in the Weatherhead Scholars Program at Harvard University, from 2021-23.

At Protein Matters, I am Co-PI, Supervising and coordinating the individual research projects, taking a specific interest in the securitization of global food protein production chains.