Postdoctoral Fellows

Postdoctoral Researchers

Jessica Balerna

Post-doctoral Research Associate • Affiliate, Gund Institute for Environment

Expertise
  • socio-ecology
  • human-natural systems
  • freshwater ecology
  • biogeochemistry

Sam Bliss

Postdoctoral Fellow, Gund Institute for Environment

Expertise

Amaya M. Carrasco-Torrontegui

Postdoctoral Associate, Institute for Agroecology

Expertise

Agroecology, Collective Action, Food Systems, Indigenous Knowledge Systems, Planetary health, Nature and health 

Ariane de Almeida Rodrigues

Postdoctoral Associate

Expertise

Ecosystem services, Land systems, Spatial analysis, Water resources, Local communities and Indigenous Peoples

Megan Duffy

Gund Postdoctoral Fellow, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources

Expertise

Biogeochemistry, regional climate change, nutrient flux, warming winters.

Tabea Melina Hoffmann

Postdoctoral Associate • Affiliate, Gund Institute for Environment

Expertise

Lauren Hunt

Gund Postdoctoral Fellow • Postdoctoral Research Associate

Expertise
  • Climate adaptation and mitigation
  • Farmer decision-making and behavior
  • Mixed-methods social science and agroecology approaches
  • Evidence-based policy and program design

Kate Porterfield

Post-Doctoral Fellow, Climate Impacts in Food Systems, Climate Measurements Center of Excellence

Expertise

Nutrient cycling, ecological engineering, sustainable agriculture, phosphorus recovery and reuse

Humberto Miguel Romero Uribe

Gund Postdoctoral Fellow, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources

Expertise

Ecosystem services, soil carbon dynamics, land-use impacts, ecosystem degradation

Josiah (Josh) Taylor

Postdoctoral Associate

Expertise

Rae Taylor-Burns

Gund Postdoctoral Fellow

Expertise

coastal engineering, hydrodynamic modeling, climate adaptation, nature-based solutions, adaptation finance, insurance

Mojtaba Zeraatpisheh

Postdoctoral Associate

Expertise

Peometrics, digital soil mapping, pedology, (spatial) data mining, remote sensing, and soil health/quality