Victoria Reyes-García

Victoria Reyes-García (PhD in anthropology, 2001, U of Florida) is ICREA research professor at the Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB). Her research focuses on Indigenous and local knowledge systems, particularly in relation to the natural environment, and on the relevance of these knowledge systems to understand and deal with the climate and environmental crises. She co-directs the Laboratory of Analysis of Social-Ecological Systems in a Global World (LASEG), a research group that analyses the impacts of global change on socio-ecosystems. Her current ERC-funded project (LICCI) studies local perceptions of climate change impacts. She participates in the Transformative Change Report of the Intergovernmental Science and Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). She is member of the National Academy of Science, USA ( 2021) and the Academie d'Agriculture de France (2022).