About me

I am a postdoctoral researcher at Wageningen University & Research, with concurrent appointments in the Agricultural Economics and Rural Policy Group and the Information Technology Group. As a development economist, I study how families, social networks, and algorithms shape investment in human capital, and how to design policies that reduce inequality and expand opportunity. My work combines field experiments, network analysis, economic theory, and computational methods, including machine learning, with a focus on low- and middle-income countries.

I joined the Information Technology Group on 1 November 2026. In this role, I contribute to developing AIM for Scale's AI for Agriculture innovation package for low- and middle-income countries.

Affiliations. I am currently affiliated to the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the Network Science Society (NetSci), the Dutch Development Economics Network (DuDe), and EAAMO-Bridges, where I am a project co-organiser. I co-founded and co-organise the Verano Internacional de la Ciencia (Summer of Science), a mentorship program for indigenous women in scientific research.

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I obtained my PhD from UNU-MERIT and Maastricht University. Previously, I collaborated with the World Bank on governance of higher education, the International Labour Organization on youth aspirations, and with Stanford’s Equitable Access to Education Lab on school choice.