Rachel Cypher is a PhD candidate at University of California, Santa Cruz.

She is currently completing her dissertation on how we are living in agro-industrial landscapes, specifically focusing on the spread of soybean plantations in Argentina. Partly because of her childhood experiences with Biosphere 2, she is interested in biomes, utopias, and how people live in groups.

Rachel has a 6 month's employment as scientific assistant and will start in her new position with AURA March 1. Rachel was a visiting PhD fellow with AURA back in 2014 and we are excited to welcome Rachel back to Aarhus and the AURA team.