I am a land system and conservation social scientist, and a postdoctoral researcher within the ERC project IEK-Changes. I have a penchant for maps, impact evaluation and unexpected outcomes of forest conservation interventions. During most of my career I have focused on tropical forest landscapes, particularly in Madagascar, where I have worked for over 10 years. My research integrates extensive field-based social data collection with participatory mapping, geospatial analysis, impact evaluation and evidence synthesis, to understand the social and environmental impacts of forest conservation interventions. My work at the IEK-Changes project focuses on understanding how changes in Indigenous environmental knowledge affects biodiversity outcomes in the Tsimane’ Territory in the Bolivian Amazon. For this, I will be working on reconstructing the history of forest cover change in these territories and using impact evaluation to understand what are the factors supporting the Tsimane’ people in protecting their forest resources.