research interests

My research maps the invisible strings of our global supply chains, tracing the form and flow of the materials that build our world from rural, distal geographies to rapidly expanding urban cores. My work applies traditional accounting methods from Industrial Ecology (Wolman, 1965) to Critical Urban Theory (Brenner & Schmid, 2015), building on the conceptualization of Urban Land Teleconnections (Seto et al., 2012) to spatialize these methods across vast, global geographies.

My current work follows the flow of construction materials such as limestone, sand, and crushed gravel, from their origins in productive landscapes to industrial processing sites where they are transformed into consumable forms for use within the built environment. While I rely on traditional accounting methods to empirically quantify mass conservation across global supply networks, I am eager to push the boundaries of methodology and apply transdisciplinary frameworks to my work including machine learning, network science, and geospatial data science. 

I hope to apply these methodologies and frameworks to the Global South, where informal urbanization is rapidly expanding. While there is a wealth of literature that exposes the tremendous accumulation of materials in the Global South (Linares-Capurro et al. , 2025; Linares-Capurro et al., 2026; Aslam et al., 2026; Haberl et al., 2025), there is still much work to do to track where these materials come from and how they get to where they are. My work aims to illuminate these structures.

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