Shannon ABC would like to welcome Dr Theresa Rubhara to the team. Theresa is an agricultural economics researcher with experience in farm-level economics, food security, sustainability of food value chains and climate change. Currently, Theresa is a researcher at the Circular Bioeconomy Research Group, Shannon ABC, Munster Technological University, Tralee. Theresa is part of a team working on the SFI Farm Zero Carbon project, which aims to develop a model farm with a neutral greenhouse gas emission based on the Irish pasture-based livestock systems. Collaborating with researchers from TCD and UCD, Theresa forms part of a team developing the social innovation blueprint with a business model for farmers to mitigate climate change. The blueprint will contain essential resources and economic analysis of specific mitigation strategies, including the green biorefinery, which farmers can use to ensure carbon neutrality on the farm. Prior to joining MTU, Theresa worked as a post-doctoral researcher on the CAPRI Green project at Teagasc, which involved validation of the CAPRI economic model with farm survey data for estimating economic, environmental and social sustainability on Irish farms. Theresa also worked on projects involving sustainability of the pork value chain and climate change for small scale farmers in South Africa. She received a PhD in Food Security from the University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa, in 2018. Her research was focused on the economics of small-scale farm-level crop production choices. She also has a master’s in rural development from Van Hall Larenstein University, Netherlands and a bachelor’s in Agricultural economics from Bindura University, Zimbabwe. We are looking forward to the contribution that Theresa will make to the team.