Leonie is a formal postdoc and honorary fellow in the GLUE lab. The primary focus of her research is understanding cattle ranching and linked environmental and social impacts in the Brazilian Amazon, including deforestation, intensification and equity problems. A key aspect of her research involves developing AI-driven models to analyze high resolution satellite imagery, particularly related to estimating cattle presence and densities. Her methods include both big data and deep learning-driven spatial analysis and political ecology theory.