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Main research interest - Interdisciplinary and spatially explicit research on human-nature interactions in the context of land cover and land use change. Special focus on tropical agriculture and deforestation, climate change mitigation and adaptation. Combining GIS and remote sensing research techniques with social science perspectives such as the livelihoods approach.Current position: Researcher Global Agricultural Systems. Modelling and analysis of land use and land use change processes using the global IMAGE integrated assessment model.Postdoctoral research - Forests and food: competing land use demands, food security and GHG emissions in Sub-Saharan AfricaPhD research - Effectiveness assessment of (non) carbon benefits at 23 subnational forest-based climate change mitigation (REDD+) initiatives across the tropics. Combining remote sensing, geo-information, and socio-economic/ statistical research methods following a quasi-experimental study design.MSc student Geographical Information Management and Applications 2011-2013 (Joint Master of Science at University of Twente/ITC, Utrecht University, Wageningen University, TU Delft)MSc thesis research (2013): Understanding drivers and processes involved in deforestation and modelling of land change processes in VietnamMSc Internship (2012-2013): ARCADIS Geo-information departmentMSc student Sustainable Development- International Development 2009-2012 (Research master)Internship position (2011): Researcher with a livelihoods focus on bamboo and its potential role in forest landscape restoration. Working with the International Network for Bamboo and Rattan (INBAR) Ghana and in collaboration with the Global Partnership on Forest Landscape Restoration (GPFLR) and Wageningen International (CDI).Internship position (2010): Researcher on agroforestry and Payments for Environmental Services in collaboration with Hue University of Agriculture and Forestry (Vietnam) and Tropenbos InternationalSpecialties: Geographical information science (GIS), Agent-Based Modelling, Rural development sociology, Payments for Environmental Services, small holder plantations, landscape restoration

Listed skills include International Development, Remote Sensing, Arcgis, Research, and 17 others.

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  Scientific Researcher Global Agricultural Systems

  Planbureau Voor De Leefomgeving (Pbl)

  Nov 2020 - Present - Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

  Contributing to the agricultural and land-use part of the integrated assessment model IMAGE, focussing on the competing demands for land for food production, land-based climate change mitigation and biodiversity protection.