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CBEAR Postdoctoral Fellows
We established the CBEAR Fellows Program to provide career guidance to the next generation of food and agriculture scientists. Our research projects expose each scientist to state-of-the-art methodologies and leading experts in their fields.
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Additionally, our fellows run seminars on agri-environmental research that reinforces scientific leadership and teamwork together with professional experience in addressing conservation challenges within farming systems.
Our Current Fellows
The next generation of scientists bringing behavioral insights to climate-smart sustainability.
Researcher, University of Delaware
Ph.D. Agricultural Resource Economics
Diya Ganguly is an agricultural economist with expertise in behavioral and experimental economics. Dr. Ganguly is a former J.B. Hassler Fellow from the University of Nebraska - Lincoln. She completed her dissertation on "The Role of Gender Identity on Conservation Effort Choice on Rented Farmland.” Dr Ganguly’s doctoral research uses economic theory on identity and social norms to model how gender identity may impede the adoption of long-term conservation practices on rented farmland, which she then tests in an economic lab experiment. Her experiment examines the interaction between the choice of contracts and the landowner’s gender identity in determining conservation effort choice in a land rental setup.
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Dr. Ganguly has several works in progress on consumer behavior in response to different sources of recycled irrigation water and behavioral and decision-making implications around the agri-environmental impacts of PFAS contamination.
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Currently a postdoc at the University of Delaware, Dr. Ganguly is actively involved in several research projects in relation to consumer behavior and best practices in agricultural conservation efforts.
