Nani holds a master’s degree in marine science from the Université Côte d’Azur and a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He has worked as an engineer, analyst, and researcher. As an engineer, he invented bottom-up ways to repurpose plastic bags in Tanzania. As an analyst, he worked for the government of San Francisco to inform the city’s climate action plan. As a researcher, he studied seagrass soil carbon disturbances from boat anchoring. Now, Nani is an INPhINIT fellow at ICTA-UAB researching the science-policy nexus of blue carbon.