Bio
I am a multidisciplinary researcher in the fields of business political ecology, ecological economics and molecular biology with a PhD from the University of Cambridge. I am part of the Atlas of Unburnable Fossil Fuels at the Faculty of Biology, Universitat de Barcelona and since 2023, I am the coordinator of the Global Atlas of Environmental Justice (ejatlas.org) at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) .
I publish in top journals like the Nature Sustainability, Global Environmental Change, or Energy Research and Social Sciences. My research seeks to empirically and theoretically understand what is the nature, objectives, stratagy and behaviour of multinational companies in environmental conflicts. In particular, I research the role of the Oil and Gas Industry in delaying the phase out of fossil fuels and their central function in a globalising economic system predicated on the exploitation of communities and ecosystems in the extraction frontiers to satiate the guzzling energy consumption of a world minority.
I deeply value teaching with a purpose, motivating my students to think critically and be intellectually ambitious. I teach using innovative participatory methods such as walking tours on Social Metabolism and Environmental Justice at the ICTA-UAB Degrowth Master. I also give Biochemistry at University of Girona, Energy Transition at the CEI Sustainability Msc (Universitat de Barcelona) and I have taught invited lectures at several business schools and universities including University of Vienna (Austria) ESCCA (Bordeaux, France), IQS School of Management, Toulouse Business School (Spain), the University of Cambridge (UK) and The New School (New York, USA). In addition, I really enjoy the chance to teach in one-to-one settings and give opportunities to brilliant students through my supervision of internships and thesis.
For me research has no meaning without impact, dissemination and transfer. That is why I collaborate with international environmental justice organisations such as Stay Grounded and Corporate Accountability in high-impact global campaigns such as #kickbigpollutersout. I regularly give media interviews and write opinion articles for major news outlets like El País, La Vanguardia, or Mongabay, my research has been covered by hundreds of news outlets around the world. I have given dozens of public talks on climate and environmental justice to explain my research and inspire change with audiences ranging from decision-makers to young students. Finally, I have provided advice to the Grupo Parlamentario Sumar in the Spanish Congress in the drafting of a carbon market law, and my research has been used to justify law proposals by Podemos.
Before joining the EJAtlas I did my Phd in Molecular Biology at the University of Cambridge, funded by the prestigious LaCaixa Postgraduate Fellowship in 2016. During my time at Cambridge, I relentlessly campaigned for climate justice within one of the centers of power and cornerstone of the history of imperialism and colonialism. I joined and later coordinated the Cambridge Climate Justice Campaign successfully pushing the University to divest from fossil fuels, and exposing its research, sponsorship and recruitment links with the fossil fuel industry, which later sparked national and global campaigns to cut research and careers ties between universities and oil and gas companies.
