Dr. Carole Dalin

Associate Professor in Sustainable Food Systems, University College London

Carole Dalin is a Research Scientist at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) based in the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris. She is an Associate Professor in Sustainable Food Systems at the University College London (UCL), since August 2021. Dr. Dalin leads a Starting Grant funded by the European Research Council on solutions for sustainable and healthy food systems, evaluating the impacts of global crop and livestock production on climate, water and biodiversity as well as human health. She leads the Sustainable Food Systems research team at the Institute for Sustainable Resources of UCL.

She joined the Institute for Sustainable Resources in August 2016 as a NERC Independent Research Fellow. Her fellowship research focused on the environmental sustainability of global food production and trade. From 2014 to 2016, Carole was a Research Officer at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics. There, she worked on Southern Africa’s Hydro-Economy and Water Security (SAHEWS) project with Declan Conway, concentrating on the water-food-energy nexus of Southern Africa, and on the socio-economic implications of climate forecasts, regarding natural resources management in particular. She obtained her Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering & Water Resources and her Certificate in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy at Princeton University.