Organization and maintenance of a warehouse of NFIs and food items in support of a Free Shop for refugees, field distributions, provision of landing packs for newly arrived refugees, and an outreach project supporting local people in need. Planning, preparation, and execution of in-store and field distributions for hundreds of refugees. Training and supervision of international teams of volunteers. Inventories, demand forecasts, triggering of orders, seasonalization. Supervision and quality control of deliveries. Sorting of new and used NFIs. Preparing deliveries and shipments of relief goods for other organisations. Reporting.

Management of a team of international medical and non-medical volunteers providing primary health-care to Ukrainian refugees through mobile medical units. Coordinated adaptive strategy and project implementation at field level. Strategic planning, implementation follow-up, quality control, compliance. Coordination of field activities in refugee centres, needs assessment, exploratory missions, field security and safety, logistics. Human resources: recruitment, induction, onboarding, supervision. Finance and administration: Monitoring, grant administration, reporting. Representation and external relations management, collaboration with international and local partners, integration in UNHCR and WHO Emergency Medical Team and Health Partner Coordination Team. Situation monitoring, internal and external risk management. Communication. Medical coordination support: development of referral pathways and of health and safety protocols, quality control, inventory maintenance.

Co-development and implementation of Vulnerablity and Capacity Assessment in 4 slums in Mombasa. Co-development of questionaires, conducting Key Informant Interviews and Focus Group Discussions, transect walks across slums, development of maps, documentation of findings

Organisation, coordination, implementation, and logistical support to distribution of relief goods (food, clothes, bedding, mobility aids, menstrual hygiene supplies) and building programmes for orphanages, widows and remote villages in southern Kenya. Organisational development, website development. Helping Hands Pwani is an NGO rooted in, and mostly privately funded from, the Muslim community in southern Kenya.

Scientific Policy Officer for the Horizon2020 project SAPEA, (Science Advice for Policy by European Academies, www.sapea.info), which brings together the outstanding knowledge and expertise from over 100 academies, young academies, and learned societies in over 40 countries across Europe, spanning the disciplines of engineering, humanities, medicine, natural sciences and social sciences. SAPEA is part of the European Commission Scientific Advice Mechanism (SAM), which provides independent scientific advice to the College of European Commissioners to support their decision making. Preparation of project outlines for work on scientific topics, including budget plans and schedules accommodating multiple international stakeholders; coordination and support of working groups of international scientists, including data retrieval and analysis, literature searches and review, scientific writing, and editing of reports; management of project deliverables on tight and changeable timelines; reporting to funders and other stakeholders; development and implementation of launch events, workshops, and multi-stakeholder meetings, including identification of relevant stakeholders and documentation of events; communication about the purpose, structure, and work of SAPEA at international meetings and conferences, including development of press releases and flyers in collaboration with communication professionals; and strategic management of international and geographically dispersed teams of scientists, collaborators, and project partners to meet deadlines and ensure project success.The Evidence Review Reports produced by SAPEA working groups of European experts form the basis of Scientific Opinions by the European Commission's Group of Chief Scientific Advisors, and thus feed directly into the Commission's policy-making process.

I’m a plant ecologist with a research focus on plant interactions, specifically the evolutionary ecology and resource economics of plant reproductive strategies, plant-pollinator interactions, and parasitic plants. My post-doctoral research in South Africa encompassed several projects on parasitic plant reproduction, ranging from the resource economy of reproduction to determination of pollination and breeding systems, identification of phylogenetic relationships between newly discovered species (in collaboration with Dr. Florent Martos, Natural History Museum Paris), the use of molecular phylogenies to explore the evolution of reproductive traits and host specialisation, and the suitability of morphological, chemical, and ecological traits to inform taxonomy.My responsibilities as a post-doc included practical and theoretical research on plant reproduction and pollination ecology, publication of results in international journals and at conferences, writing of grant and research-permit applications for multi-year research projects and of reports for funding agencies and nature conservation agencies, development and delivery of lectures, practicals, and field trips, student supervision, training of lab- and field assistants, laboratory management (supply chain, safety, space allocation, equipment maintenance), and organization of conferences.