ICTA-UAB Welcome event to new faculty

We are pleased to invite you to our Welcome Event to three new faculty members, next Thursday January 18th, in the Sala Montseny (room Z/022- Z/023). You can also follow it online.

Welcome event to new faculty members
 

Date: Thursday, January 18th 2024
Time: 12h
Venue: Room Z/022 & Z/023 ICTA-UAB and online https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88600026033?pwd=atoHw2AftjTnwe52Twaj6IysAKx4Xa.1

ICTA-UAB is organizing a welcome event to three new faculty members: Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares, Panagiota Kotsila and Johannes Langemeyer

They will explain their academic trajectory to date, their research plans at ICTA-UAB, and what they have brought so far to, and will further bring to our community.

Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares (PhD in Environmental Science and Technology, UAB, 2015) is an ethnobiologist with an established research trajectory on the study of Indigenous Peoples' land-based stewardship systems. He is currently a Ramón y Cajal research fellow based at ICTA-UAB and the Botany Unit of the Department of Animal Biology, Plant Biology and Ecology (BABVE). He has seven years of post-doctoral experience at the University of Helsinki, with research stays as a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge and Indiana University Bloomington. He has recently received an ERC Starting Grant to examine changes in the ethnobotanical knowledge systems of Amazonian Indigenous communities.
 

Panagiota Kotsila has a PhD in Development Studies from the University of Bonn. She is a recently awarded Ramon y Cajal fellow at the Institute for Environmental Sciences and Technology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and core member of the Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability. Her current research focuses on the political ecology of urban environments at the intersection of climate justice, human health, and immigration. Her recent publications include the co-authored book Injustice in Urban Sustainability: Ten Core Drivers (Routledge) and the co-edited volume Contours of Feminist Political Ecology (Palgrave Macmillan). 
 

Johannes Langemeyer, holding dual PhDs from Stockholm University and the Autonomous University of Barcelona, focuses on urban ecosystem services and the integration of green infrastructure in cities. He leads the NICHES, INTERLACE, and E:SBN projects at ICTA-UAB and co-leads the LASEG group. Recently awarded the Ramón y Cajal fellowship and leading the newly granted ERC-funded BIG-5 project, his upcoming research will delve into the production of relational nature values in the digital realm and environmental stewardship.