In my current academic work, I aim to understand the socio-ecological processes that make life possible in the urban South, focusing on histories and practices around water, sanitation, and drainage infrastructure.  I have advanced historical understandings of the urbanisation of water in the Global South and influenced the situated urbanisms and everyday practices debate, with focus on professional politicians. On this path, I have contributed to defining the emerging field of critical perspectives on transforming urban infrastructures through the first published review of the main strands within the diverse literature on water infrastructure.

By working at the intersection of political ecology and feminist studies and understanding water as a living being, I have advanced our understanding of the role to water’s materiality in mediating urban relations. I have an established track-record in gaining research funding. In the past 5 years, my research has been funded by competitive grants from the Programme for Water and Development (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Netherlands) and the European Research Council (ERC Starting Grant).