I obtained my MSc in Climate Change and PhD in Environmental Sciences at the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia, UK. The main focus of my research is on the interactions between climate, society and terrestrial ecosystems through the global and regional water and carbon cycles. To cover this broad research scope I have developed expertise in multiple observational streams (meteorology, tree rings, remote sensing, eddy covariance), statistics and ecosystem modelling with the ORCHIDEE global land surface model. Currently, I am a laureate of the presidential program "Make Our Planet Great Again - MOPGA" in the Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement (LSCE, Paris). I am parameterising the ORCHIDEE model to study the responses of temperate and tropical rainforests of South America to recent climate change. I am also developing a framework to use tree rings to improve and benchmark land surface models at long time scales. Beside this modelling work, I maintain an effort to monitor changes in global drought with the Self-calibrating Palmer Drought Severity Index (scPDSI) in the Climatic Research Unit.