Aiora is Assistant Professor at the Department of Land Economy and Director of the MSt Climate, Environmental and Urban Policy. Prior to that, she was Lecturer at the Open University. Between 2017 and 2021 she was full-time Senior Editor at the journal Nature Sustainability, which she helped launch and where she assessed research manuscripts across the social sciences and wrote science communication pieces for broad audiences.

She has published research on a range of sustainability policies, such as environmental and conservation programs in rural areas in Mexico and South Africa, deforestation drivers at large scales, solutions to peatland fires in Indonesia, and public policy for sustainable transport to industrial estates. She has training in ecological economics, environmental economics, political ecology and environmental sciences. She has taught environmental policy, economics and methods since 2013.

Her research focuses on challenges for implementation and effectiveness of environmental and sustainability governance across scales. For example, understanding the diversity of views on controversial or conflictual issues, and the spatial variability of impacts. This includes adoption and diffusion of sustainable land-use practices, policy acceptability, and drivers and motivations of behavioural change. Her methods' expertise includes R statistical language, Q methodology, econometrics, multi-criteria decision methods, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and data visualisation.

She is author of a popular science book on social-environmental sciences, and collaborates frequently with the media (printed newspaper opinions, live radio and TV), on environmental and sustainability policy topics and mainly in her native language.