Positions

• Associate Professor, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University (2023-present)
• Academic Director CHARM-EU, Utrecht University (2023-present)
• Assistant Professor, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University (2018-2023)
• Academic Coordinator CHARM-EU, Utrecht University (2020-2023)
• Climate Policy Expert, Climate and Environment Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Rome (2017-2018)
• Post-doctoral Researcher, Yangon. Full funding from Niels Stensen Fellowship. Title of research: The promises and perils of the transparency turn: can the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative help Myanmar on its way to a sustainable democracy? Collaborations with the Centre for Economic and Social Development, and the UNDP-UN Environment Poverty-Environment Initiative (2016-2017)

Education

• Senior University Research Qualification (SKOz), Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University (2023)
• Senior University Teaching Qualification (SKOw), Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University (2023)
• PhD, Environmental Policy Group, Wageningen University. Thesis title: Carbonizing forest governance: Analyzing the consequences of REDD+ for multilevel forest governance. Full scholarship from Wageningen School of Social Sciences (2016)
• MSc, International Development Studies (cum laude), Wageningen University (2009)
• BSc, International Development Studies (cum laude), Wageningen University (2007)