Noémi is an associate professor and a researcher at the Department of Urban and Rural Development, Swedish University of Agriculture Sciences.  She holds a PhD from Central European University (Budapest, Vienna). Her PhD research (2016) was a feminist ethnography  which focused on the political ecology of gender and climate change in Nicaragua. Previous to joining academia, she worked alongside smallholder farmers, Indigenous peoples, national and international organisations in Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua.

Her current research is inspired by feminist, decolonial and anti-far right political ecologies as well as by environmental political theory. Her focus is on the linkages between environmental governance and the rise of (far-right) authoritarianism striving to re-centering the question of democracy in debates on agricultural-, land-, climate- and energy transition politics. She is particularly interested in exploring how radical socio-environmental transformations towards justice and equity can emerge, and the role of scholar-activists in supporting the emergence of such transformations.