She recently joined the CSIR after having spent time in academia doing postdoctoral research and teaching SES concepts to undergraduate and postgraduate students. To date, her research has focused on regime shifts: large, persistent changes in the structure and function of social-ecological systems, particularly the invasion or encroachment of woody plants into historically herbaceous ecosystems. She is focusing on understanding how the drivers and the feedbacks in a system interact to influence regime shifts, identifying leverage points in the systems to build resilience, and how regime shifts impact ecosystem services and human wellbeing. During her PhD, she used the process of bush encroachment to assess the resilience of Savanna systems to regime shifts. Most of her work incorporates system dynamics modelling, field ecological data, social data, Geographic Information System, and remote sensing.

Expertise: Social-ecological regime shifts