Team

We strive for advancing knowledge on the evolution of social-ecological and knowledge systems, through effective and meaningful partnerships involving other researchers, as well as NGOs, governments, communities and civil society groups worldwide.

Meet Our Team

Alumni

Multidiscplinary scientist interested in sustainability, livelihoods and social ecological systems

Affiliated Researcher

Environmental scientist. Passionate to make cities livable places FOR ALL

Alumni

Rural sociologist interested in the interface between science and technology studies and political agroecology

Alumni

Postdoctoral researcher interested in ethnoecology, historical ecology and indigenous resource management systems

ICREA RESEARCH PROFESSOR

I work on diverse aspects of conservation social science, covering the social impacts of conservation policy, global overviews of eviction from protected areas, sectoral studies of NGOs, and the work

Postdoctoral Researcher

Social scientist interested in interdisciplinary research with experience in rural livelihoods, agrarian change, conservation social science, class analysis, gender mainstreaming and public health.

Alumni

PhD researcher exploring environmental governance in the context of forestry and international development projects

Postdoctoral researchers

Postdoctoral researcher at ICTA-UAB interested in researching social-technological-environmental interactions

Alumni

PhD researcher working on ecosystem services and urban environmental justice

PHD RESEARCHER

Urban ecologist interested in ecosystem services, green infrastructures and environmental justice

Alumni

Multidisciplinary scientist investigating the relationship between chemicals and socio-natures

PHD RESEARCHER

PhD student researching the livelihood resilience of indigenous and non-indigenous farmers in agroforestry systems in southern Chile.

Alumni

PhD researcher exploring the relationship between gender and climate change in tropical marine and coastal ecosystems

PhD Researcher

Passionate about Mongolian traditional knowledge and culture and their influence on adaptation strategies

ICREA Research Professor (LASEG CO-LEADER)

A passionate environmental social scientist and Laseg's co-director

Alumni

Laia was a PhD Researcher studying the co-management of small-scale fisheries 2014-2019

Communications Manager

Communication specialist making scientific research accessible and impactful.

ALUMNI

Environmental anthropologist interested in European and African pastoral commons

PHD RESEARCHER

PhD candidate interested in rural vulnerability, social movements and food sovereignty

ALUMNI

Political Ecologist researcher interested in conservation issues, environmental justice and decolonial and participatory approaches to research. Ex INPHINIT fellow researcher at ICTA-UAB.

Senior researcher

Action-oriented and mission-driven ethnobiologist

Alumni

Multidisciplinary scientist interested in food systems transitions.

Postdoctoral Researcher

Investigating the maintenance of biocultural diversity and the interface between scientific and non-scientific knowledge systems

Alumni

Postdoctoral researcher interested in climate change and Indigenous and local knowledge

Alumni

Environmental historian

Affiliated Researcher

Rural and environmental geographer investigating community-based collective action

Alumni

An enthusiastic forest researcher

PhD Researcher

Enthusiastic about ecosystem services and risk mapping, urban adaptation, and knowledge co-production

PhD Researcher

PhD researcher interested in nature-based solutions, ecosystem services, modelling and visualisation of social and environmental systems

Research Professor (LASEG CO-LEADER)

Socio-Environmental scientist curious about relationships between Nature Place People and Values.

Alumni

Applied environmental anthropologist

Postdoctoral Researcher

Environmental social scientist interested on environmental governance

Postdoctoral researcher

Geographer investigating local adaptations to global environmental change

Postdoctoral Researcher

Environmental social scientist interested in rural livelihoods, wildlife conservation and feminist political ecology

Postdoctoral Researcher

Ethnobiologist working on biocultural approaches to biodiversity conservation

Alumni

PhD researcher and Marie Curie Fellow

Alumni

Sara concluded her PhD at ICTA-UAB in 2016. Since then, she has been a postdoctoral researcher at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya and the Universitat de Girona.

Alumni

Environmental social scientist working on conservation and rural development issues in Colombia

PhD Researcher

Human ecologist interested in Africa's pastoral commons

PhD Researcher

A political economist interested in agrarian change and biodiversity conservation

Alumni

PhD Researcher in ICTA at LASEG and IRD-GRED (Montpellier) fellow

Alumni

Environmental biologist interested in agroecology, ethnobotany, and local ecological knowledge

PhD Researcher

My main expertise is around area-based conservation initiatives in Peru, from a political ecology approach.

Postdoctoral researcher

I am a Valencian sociologist specializing in environmental sociology and rural studies.

ICREA Research Professor

My research focuses on Indigenous and local knowledge systems.

ALUMNI

Beatriu de Pinós research fellow at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra since April 2022.

Alumni

PhD researcher exploring the impacts of COVID-19 on protected areas

ALUMNI

Social environmental scientist

PhD Researcher

I am an INPhINIT fellow and PhD researcher at ICTA-UAB. I hold a master’s degree in marine science from the Université Côte d’Azur and a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the ...

Postdoctoral Researcher

Environmental Scientist investigating land-water systems with a focus on the science-policy interface

Alumni

Environmental scientist investigating local climate change impacts and adaptation strategies

Alumni

Computer scientist interested in open science, citizen science, environmental activism and art

PhD Researcher

With my PhD I study the political ecology of blockchain technology in nature conservation and restoration.

Post-doctoral researcher

Jocelyne (she/her) is a Singaporean Chinese post-doc on the Conservation Data Justice project. She looks at how geospatial data are used in conservation and the justice implications. Her interests rev

Alumni

A systematic and mindful strategist in environmental and climate change justice

PhD Researcher

Environmental Scientist. BSc from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Nature Management MSc from the University of Copenhagen, specializing in Global Environmental Governance.

Postdoctoral researcher

I am an interdisciplinary scientist with training in plant community and landscape ecology, environmental anthropology, and geography.

PhD Researcher

PhD student interested in rural socio-ecological sustainability and agroecology

Research Support Technician

Interested in climate adaptation and advancing Nature-Based Solutions

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