Florence works in WRI’s People and Ecosystem Program as a GIS specialist. Her work focuses mostly on poverty and ecosystem services mapping in East Africa but she also supports GIS activities in forest-related projects in Central Africa.

Her previous work experience relates to evaluating the risk of deforestation in the Venezuelan Andes, the detection of indicators of land mines in Croatia through remote sensing, and humanitarian NGOs' needs for geographical information and techniques.

Florence studied agronomy engineering with a specialization in land management at the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium) and got a master's degree in  remote sensing and GIS at the Free University of Brussels (Belgium). During her studies, she had a few international experiences in Bolivia, Chile and Senegal.