Postdoctoral researcher

My work aims to explore biocultural interactions and cultural dynamics in tropical ecosystems while bridging gaps between local and academic knowledge systems. My research addresses the biocultural dynamics in small-scale societies' food systems articulated around three main themes: (1) The perception of climate change and the agrobiodiversity adaptation, (2) the ethnobotanical knowledge of wild food within Austronesian cultures and (3) the local ecological knowledge transfer process and biocultural heritage.

To address these thematic, I use interdisciplinary approaches borrowing methods from botany and ecology (voucher, GIS, transect) to ethnobotany, cognitive anthropology and linguistics (surveys, free listing, pile sorting, drawings interviews, participatory observation) using both qualitative and quantitative data.