Team

Ramin Soleymani-Fard

Alumni

I am a software engineer in the LICCI team at ICTA-UAB. Previously I worked in research on developing planning strategies for wireless sensor networks at the University Duisburg-Essen and worked as a Creative Technologist at the Berlin-based Service Design Agency IXDS. I also worked as a freelance software developer, educator, and artistic researcher and has been a community organizer for a digital art community in Berlin and in Barcelona. I am also an initiator and co-organizer of Science Hack Day Berlin, a community-run Hackathon for Citizen Science and Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Science.

Research areas

Indigenous and local ecological knowledge

Environmental governance and conservation

Resilience and transformation

Projects

Climate change and Indigenous People and local communities. A new online course
Project dates
Local Indicators of Climate Change Impacts Observation Network - LICCION
November 2020 - April 2022
Sharing Traditional Ecological Knowledge (CONECT-e)
January 2015 – December 2019

Publications

Indigenous Peoples and local communities report ongoing and widespread climate change impacts on local social-ecological systems Reyes-García V, García-del-Amo D, Benyei, P, Calvet-Mir L, André Braga Junqueira, Labeyrie V, Xiaoyue Li, Vincent porcher, Miñarro S, Porcuna-Ferrer, Anna, Schlingmann A, Ramin Soleymani-Fard, Tofighi-Niaki A., Caviedes J, Chambon M, Fernández-Llamazares, Álvaro, Mattalia G (2024). Communications Earth & Environment, 5 (29).
Local indicators of climate change impacts described by Indigenous Peoples and local communities: Study protocol Reyes-García V, Benyei, P, García-del-Amo D, André Braga Junqueira, Labeyrie V, Xiaoyue Li, Vincent porcher, Porcuna-Ferrer, Anna, Schlingmann A, Ramin Soleymani-Fard (2023). PLoS ONE, 18 (1): e0279847.
Data Sovereignty in Community-Based Environmental Monitoring: Toward Equitable Environmental Data Governance Reyes-García V, Tofighi-Niaki A., Austin, B.J., Benyei, P, Danielsen F., Fernández-Llamazares, Álvaro, Sharma A, Soleymani-Fard R., Tengö M. (2022). BioScience, 72 (8).
Global patterns of adaptation to climate change by Indigenous Peoples and local communities. A systematic review Schlingmann A, Graham S, Benyei, P, Corbera E, Martínez Sanesteban I, Marelle A, Ramin Soleymani-Fard, Reyes-García V (2021). Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 51: 55-64.
A collaborative approach to bring insights from local observations of climate change impacts into global climate change research Reyes-García V, García-del-Amo D, Benyei, P, Fernández-Llamazares, Álvaro, André Braga Junqueira, Li, X, Porcuna-Ferrer, Anna, Schlingmann A, Ramin Soleymani-Fard (2019). Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 39: 1-8.