I am a scholar of political ecology and an ARC DECRA Fellow in the Resources, Environment & Development Group, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University. Before joining the ANU I begun a position as a lecturer in Global Development Studies at the University of Helsinki. Over the past 15 years, I have worked on various research projects exploring the politics of environment and development, with a particular focus on how water resources are made and governed in the Mekong Region, Southeast Asia.

My DECRA project ‘Volatile Rivers and the Infrastructure Politics in the Mekong Region’ examines entanglements of rivers, infrastructure, and power relations, and how these are increasingly shaped by a globalizing China and changing climate.

I am also a member of the Kone Foundation funded research project ‘Repair and responsibility in ruined environments of the global South’, which investigates the emerging political ecologies of repair and the ways in which people living on the extractive frontlines reimagine and recraft their livelihoods. 

PhD (Global Development Studies, University of Helsinki)

• Political ecology
• Environment and development
• Resource politics
• Water and climate governance
• Infrastructure politics
• Mainland Southeast Asia / Mekong Region