Zora Kovacic

PEER REVIEWED SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES

Kovacic, Z., Rommetveit, K., Völker, T. and Strand, R. (2025). Innovations as imagined futures in EU sustainability policies. Law, Innovation and Technology.

Kovacic, Z. and Argüelles, L. (2025). Troubled environmental governance in the age of the “twin” green and digital transitions. Environmental Science & Policy, 174: 1-5.

Gambhir, A., Albert, M., Doe, S., Donges, J., Farajalla, N., Giatti, L., Gundimeda, H., Hendel-Blackford, S., Hoyer, D., Homer-Dixon, T., Adan, S., Jacome-Polit, D., Kemp, L., Korowicz, D., Kovacic, Z., Kwakkel, J., Laybourn, L., Lempert, L., Mahamoud, A., Oliver, T., Pavkova, I., Ponnoly, J., Satgar, V., Shipman, M., Sillmann, J., Silver, N., Stevenson, S. and Richardson, R. (2025). A systemic risk assessment methodological framework for the global polycrisis. Nature Communications.

Sanchez Fernandez, G., García Casañas, C. and Kovacic, Z. (2025). Digitalización vs. sostenibilidad ambiental. Un análisis crítico de los vehículos eléctricos conectados en el territorio español. Revista Iberoamericana De Ciencia, Tecnología Y Sociedad – CTS, 20 (60): 33-58.

García Casañas, C. and Kovacic, Z. (2025). Implementing the twin transitions: A critical perspective from the Spanish energy sector. Environmental Science & Policy, 164: 104012.

Orozco-Meléndez, F., Paneque-Gálvez, J. and Kovacic, Z. (2024). Problematizing post-normal science in the Global South. Environmental Science & Policy, 161: 103867.

Kovacic, Z., García Casañas, C., Argüelles, L., Yáñez Serrano, P., Ribera-Fumaz, R., Prause, L. and March, H. (2024). The twin green and digital transition: High-level policy or science fiction? Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 7(6), 2251-2278.

Kovacic, Z., & Biggeri, A. (2023). Post-normal science 30 years on. Editorial Introduction: Ongoing conversations about knowledge, science practices, integrity and quality through Post-Normal lenses. Futures, 151.

Kovacic, Z. and Marcos-Valls, A. (2023). Institutionalising interdisciplinarity in PhD training: challenging and redefining expertise in problem-oriented research. Environmental Education Research, 29 (3): 473-488.

Waylen, K., Blackstock, K., Matthews, K., Juarez-Bourke, A., Hague, A., Wardell-Johnson, D., Miller, D., Kovacic, Z., Völker, T., Guimarães Pereira, A. and Giampietro, M. (2023). Post-Normal Science in Practice: Reflections from Scientific Experts Working on the European Agri-Food Policy Nexus. Environmental Science & Policy, 141: 158-167.

Eversberg, D., Koch, P., Lehmann, R., Saltelli, A., Ramcilovic-Suominen, S. and Kovacic, Z. (2023). The more things change, the more they stay the same: promises of bioeconomy and the economy of promises. Sustainability Science, 18: 557–568.
Kovacic, Z. and Benini, L. (2022). Striking the balance: sustainability and institutional transitions in the European Environment Agency, Futures, 141: 1-11.

Kovacic, Z. (2022). Governing informality through representation: Examples from slum policies in Brazil and South Africa. Cities, 125: 102122.

Kovacic, Z. and Atia, M. (2022) Spaces of informality and the governing of slums. Guest editorial, Cities, 125: 1-2.

Völker, T., Blackstock, K., Kovacic, Z., Sindt, J., Strand, R. and Waylen, K. (2022) The role of metrics in the governance of the water-energy-food nexus within the European Commission. Journal of Rural Studies, 92: 473-481.

Lemus, D. and Kovacic, Z. (2021) Precise yet uncertain: Broadening understandings of uncertainty and policy in the BPA controversy. Risk Analysis, 42 (2): 279-297.

Kovacic, Z., Benini, L., Jesus, A., Strand, R. and Funtowicz, S. (2021) When the unspeakable is no longer taboo: Growth without economic growth. Issues in Science and Technology, 37(4): 16-18.

Muscat, A., de Olde, E.M., Kovacic, Z., de Boer, I.J.M. and Ripoll-Bosch, R. (2021) Food, energy or biomaterials? Policy coherence across agro-food and bioeconomy policy domains in the EU. Environmental Science & Policy, 123: 21-30.

Kovacic, Z., Musango, J.K., Buyana, K., Ambole, A., Smit, S., Mwau, B., Ogot, M., Lwasa, S., Brent, A. (2020) Building capacity towards what? Proposing a framework for the analysis of energy transition governance in the context of urban informality in Sub-Saharan Africa. Local Environment, 26 (3): 364-378.

Musango, J.K., Currie, P., Smit, S. and Kovacic, Z. (2020) Urban metabolism of the informal city: probing and measuring the ‘unmeasurable’ to monitor Sustainable Development Goal 11 indicators. Ecological Indicators, 119: 106746.

Marcos-Valls, A., Kovacic, Z., Giampietro, M., Kallis, G. and Rieradevall, J. (2020) Isolated yet open: A metabolic analysis of Menorca, Science of The Total Environment, 738.

Völker, T., Kovacic, Z. and Strand, R. (2020) Indicator development as a site of collective imagination? The case of European Commission policies on the Circular Economy. Culture and Organization, 26 (2): 103-120.

Giampietro, M. and Kovacic, Z. (2019) Facing the tragedy of change in the semiotic process: the role of science. International Journal of Sustainable Development, Vol. 22 (1/2): 88–109.

Kovacic, Z., Musango, J. K., Ambole, A., Buyana, K., Smit, S., Anditi, C., Mwau, B., Ogot, M., Lwasa, S., Brent, A. C., Nsangi, G. and Sseviiri, H. (2019). Interrogating differences: A comparative analysis of Africa’s informal settlements. World Development, 122: 614-627.

Ambole, A., Musango, J. K., Buyana, K., Ogot, M., Anditi, C., Mwau, B., Kovacic, Z., Smit, S., Lwasa, S., Nsangi, G., Sseviiri, H. and Brent, A. (2019). Mediating household energy transitions through co-design in urban Kenya, Uganda and South Africa. Energy Research & Social Science, 55: 208-217.

Kovacic, Z. and Di Felice, L. J. (2019). Complexity, uncertainty and ambiguity: implications for European Union energy governance. Energy Research & Social Science, 53: 159-169.

Smit, S., Musango, J.K., Kovacic, Z. and Brent, A.C. (2019). Towards measuring the informal city: A societal metabolism approach. Journal of Industrial Ecology, 23 (3): 674-685.

Bidone, F. and Kovacic, Z. (2018). From nationalism to global climate change: analysis of the historical evolution of environmental governance in the Brazilian Amazon. International Forestry Review, 20 (4): 420-435.

Kovacic, Z. (2018). Conceptualizing numbers at the science-policy interface. Science, Technology & Human Values, 43 (6): 1039-1065.

Cabello, V., Kovacic, Z., and van Cauwenbergh, N. (2018). Unravelling narratives of water management: Reflections on epistemic uncertainty in the first cycle of implementation of the Water Framework Directive in Southern Spain. Environmental Science & Policy, 85: 19-27.

Kiravu, C., Diaz-Maurin, F., Giampietro, M., Brent, A., Bukkens, S., Chiguvare, Z., Gasennelwe-Jeffrey, A.M., Gope, G., Kovacic, Z., Magole, L., Musango, J., Ruiz-Rivas Hernando, U., Smit, S., Vázquez Barquero, A. and Yunta Mezquita, F. (2018). Proposing a Master’s Programme on Participatory Integrated Assessment of Energy Systems to Promote Energy Access and Energy Efficiency in Southern Africa. International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 19 (3): 622-641.

Kovacic, Z., Spanò, M., Lo Piano, S. and Sorman, A.H. (2018). Finance, energy and the decoupling: An empirical study. Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 28: 565-590.

Allen, T.H.F, Austin, P., Giampietro, M., Kovacic, Z., Ramly, E., Tainter, J. (2017). Mapping degrees of complexity, complicatedness and emergent complexity. Ecological Complexity, 35: 39-44.

Kovacic, Z. and Viteri Salazar, O. (2017). The lose-lose predicament of deforestation through subsistence farming: Unpacking agricultural expansion in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Journal of Rural Studies, 51: 105-114.

Kovacic, Z. (2017). Investigating science for governance through the lenses of complexity. Futures, 91: 80-83.

Smit, S., Musango, J.K., Kovacic, Z., Brent, A.C. (2017). Conceptualising slum in an urban African context. Cities, 62: 107-119.

Kovacic, Z. and Giampietro, M. (2017). Between theory and quantification: An integrated analysis of metabolic patterns of informal urban settlements. Energy Policy,100: 377-386.

Kovacic, Z., Smit, S., Musango, J. K., Brent, A. C. and Giampietro, M. (2016). Probing uncertainty levels of electrification in informal urban settlements: A case from South Africa. Habitat International, 56: 21-221.

Gamboa, G., Kovacic, Z., Di Masso, M., Mingorría, S., Gomiero, T., Rivera-Ferre, M. and Giampietro, M. (2016). The complexity of food systems: Defining relevant attributes and indicators for the evaluation of food supply chains in the Spanish context. Sustainability, 8 (6): 1-23.

Kovacic, Z. and Giampietro, M. (2015). Empty promises or promising futures? The case of smart grids. Energy, 93 (1): 67-74.

Kovacic, Z. and Giampietro, M. (2015). Beyond “beyond GDP indicators:” The need for reflexivity in science for governance. Ecological Complexity, 21: 53-61.

Diaz-Maurin, F. and Kovacic, Z. (2015). The unresolved controversy over nuclear power: A new approach from complexity theory. Global Environmental Change, 31: 207-216.

Kovacic, Z. (2014). Assessing sustainability: The societal metabolism of water in Israel. International Journal of Performability Engineering, 10 (4): 387-399.

Kovacic, Z. (2013). The legitimacy crisis of the economic paradigm. Studies across Disciplines in the Humanities and Social Sciences, 14: 77-98.

BOOKS

Bertolaso, M. and Kovacic, Z. (2024). Narrative per una società consapevole. Sulla conoscenza abilitante per la sostenibilità e l’integrazione ambientale, territoriale e sociale. Rubettino.

Kovacic, Z., Strand, R. and Völker, T. (2019). The Circular Economy in Europe: Critical Perspectives on Policies and Imaginaries. Routledge.

BOOK CHAPTERS

Kovacic, Z and Funtowicz, S. O. (2024). Post-normal science. In: Darbellay, F. (Editor) Elgar Encyclopedia of Interdisciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity. Edgar Elgar.

Strand, R. and Kovacic, Z. (2022). The data of the rose. In: Bertolaso, M., Capone, L. and Rodríguez-Lluesma, C. (Editors) Digital Humanism. Palgrave Macmillan.

Kovacic, Z. (2022). Il valore della “scomodità” per la teorizzazione della scienza post-normale. In: L’Astorina, A. and Mangia, C. (Editors) Scienziati in affanno? Scienza, politica e società: l’approccio post-normale in teoria e nelle pratiche, Roma: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche.

Allen, T.H.F., Tainter, J., Duncan, S., Giampietro, M. and Kovacic, Z. (2017). Radical transitions from fossil fuel to renewables: A change of posture. In: Labanca, N. (Editor) Complex systems and social practices in energy transitions. Springer.

Kovacic, Z. and Ramos-Martín J. (2014). Accounting for human activity and socio-economic characteristics. In: Giampietro, M., Aspinall, R.J., Ramos-Martin, J. and Bukkens, S.G.F. (Editors) Resource Accounting for Sustainability Assessment: The nexus between energy, food, water and land use. Routledge.

Serrano-Tovar, T., Cadillo Benalcazar, J., Diaz-Maurin, F., Kovacic, Z., Madrid, C., Giampietro, M., Aspinall, R.J. and Bukkens, S.G.F. (2014). The Republic of Mauritius. In: Giampietro, M., Aspinall, R.J., Ramos-Martin, J. and Bukkens, S.G.F. (Editors) Resource Accounting for Sustainability Assessment: The nexus between energy, food, water and land use. Routledge.

Madrid, C., Cadillo Benalcazar, J., Diaz-Maurin, F., Kovacic, Z., Serrano-Tovar, T., Gomiero, T., Giampietro, M., Aspinall, R.J. and Bukkens, S.G.F. (2014). Punjab State, India. In: Giampietro, M., Aspinall, R.J., Ramos-Martin, J. and Bukkens, S.G.F. (Editors) Resource Accounting for Sustainability Assessment: The nexus between energy, food, water and land use. Routledge.

Diaz-Maurin, F., Cadillo Benalcazar, J., Kovacic, Z., Madrid, C., Serrano-Tovar, T., Giampietro, M., Aspinall, R.J. and Bukkens, S.G.F. (2014). The Republic of South Africa. In: Giampietro, M., Aspinall, R.J., Ramos-Martin, J. and Bukkens, S.G.F. (Editors) Resource Accounting for Sustainability Assessment: The nexus between energy, food, water and land use. Routledge.

Kovacic, Z. (2011). Solidarity economy as an alternative to social exclusion. In: Kirin, R.J. and Prlenda, S. (Editors). Feminist challenges of spiritual practices and economic realities. Zagreb: KB tisak.

Project “Looking Back to Look Forward” funded by the V. Kann Rasmussen Foundation. Project coordination: Robert Lempert, RAND Corporation. Role: Co-PI. 399.843$ (US). 2023-2025

Project “Young researchers’ assessment and responses to the Covid-19-related polycrisis in Sao Paulo’s largest slum” funded by the United Nations Foundation, ASRA pilot project. Project coordinator: Leandro Giatti, Universidade de Sao Paulo. Role: Co-PI. 18.920€ 2024-2025

Project “DEMO – The Digital Turn in Environmental Governance: Insights from the energy and agri-food systems” funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, Contract TED2021-132205A-I00. Project coordination: Zora Kovacic, UOC. Role: co-PI. 89.900€ 2022-2025

Project “MAGIC – Moving towards Adaptive Governance In Complexity: Informing Nexus Security” funded by the EU H2020 programme, Contract 689669. Project coordination: Mario Giampietro, UAB. Role: Post-doctoral researcher. 7.457.761€ 2016-2020

Project “Co-Dec – Co-designing energy communities with energy poor women in urban areas: case studies in Kenya, Uganda and South Africa” funded by the LIRA2030 programme. Project coordination. Amollo Ambole, University of Nairobi. Role: Post-doctoral researcher. 90.000€ 2018-2019

Project “PARTICIPIA – Participatory Integrated Assessment of Energy Systems to Promote Energy Access and Efficiency” funded by the ACP – EU Cooperation Programme in Higher Education EDULINK II. Project coordination: Mario Giampietro, UAB. Role: Post-doctoral researcher and WP leader. 497.499€ 2015-2016

Project “NETEP – European-Brazilian Network on Energy Planning” funded by the Marie Curie IRSES programme, Contract 612263. Project coordination: Paula Ferreira, Universidade do Minho. Role: Pre-doctoral researcher. 218.400€ 2014

Project “GLAMUR – Global and Local food chain Assessment: a Multidimensional performance-based approach” funded by the EU FP7 programme, Contract 311778. Project coordinator: Gianluca Brunori, Wageningen University. Role: Pre-doctoral researcher. 3.696.100€ 2013-2014

Project “EPINET – Integrated Assessment of Societal Impacts of Emerging Science and Technology from within Epistemic Networks” funded by the EU FP7 programme, Contract 288971. Project coordinator: Roger Strand, University of Bergen. Role: Pre-doctoral researcher. 1.927.263€ 2012-2015

SCIENTIFIC REPORTS

Mubareka, S.B., Renner, A., Acosta Naranjo, R., Armada Bras, T., Barredo Cano, J.I., Blujdea, V., Borriello, A., Borzacchiello, M.T., Briem, K., Camia, A., Canova, M., Cazzaniga, N.E., Ceccherini, G., Ceddia, M., Cerrani, I., Chiti, T., Colditz, R., De Jong, B., De Laurentiis, V., Egea Gonzalez, F.J., Ferrario, V., Fuhrmann, M., García Casañas, C., Garcia Herrero, L., Gautron, S., Gras, M., Guillen, J., Gurria, P., Hekim, Z., Jonsoon, R., Joosten, H., Korosuo, A., Kovacic, Z., La Notte, A., Labonté, C., Lasarte Lopez, J., Lehtonen, A., Lugato, E., M’Barek, R., Macias Moy, D., Magnolfi, V., Mansuy, N., Merkel, G., Migliavacca, M., Morel, J., Motola, V., Omma, E.M., Orza, V., Paracchini, M.L., Patani, S., Perugini, L., Pilli, R., Piroddi, C., Rebours, C., Rey, A., Rossi, M., Rougieux, P., Sanchez Lopez, J., Scarlat, N., Schleker, T., Serpetti, N., Tandetzki, J., Tardy Martorell, M., Thomas, J.B., Trombetti, M., Tuomisto, H.L., Velasco Gómez, M., Virtanen, J., Völker. T., Yáñez Serrano, P., Zepharovich, E., Zulian, G. (2025) EU Biomass supply, uses, governance and regenerative actions – 10-year anniversary edition. In: Mubareka, S.B. and Renner, A. (editors). JRC140117. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union, https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2760/6511190.

European Environment Agency (2024) Governance in Complexity: Sustainability governance under highly uncertain and complex conditions. Report 05/2024. Copenhagen: European Environment Agency.

Giampietro, M., Aspinall, R.J., Bukkens, S.G.F., Cadillo Benalcazar, J., Diaz-Maurin, F., Flammini, A., Gomiero, T., Kovacic, Z., Madrid, C., Ramos-Martin, J. and Serrano-Tovar, T. (2013). An innovative accounting framework for the food-energy-water nexus. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

POLICY BRIEFINGS

Benini, L., Jesus, A., Funtowicz, S., Kovacic, Z., Strand, R. Völker, T. (2023). The case for public participation in sustainability transitions. Narratives for Change series. Briefing no. 18/2023. Copenhagen: European Environment Agency.

European Environment Agency (2022). Rethinking agriculture. Narratives for Change series. Narratives for Change series. Briefing no. 25/2021. Copenhagen: European Environment Agency.

Strand, R., Kovacic, Z., Funtowicz, S., Benini, L. and Jesus, A. (2023). Exiting the Anthropocene? Exploring fundamental change in our relationship with nature. Narratives for Change series. Briefing no. 24/2022. Copenhagen: European Environment Agency.

Strand, R., Kovacic, Z., Funtowicz, S., Benini, L. and Jesus, A. (2021). Growth without economic growth. Narratives for Change series. Briefing 28/2020. Copenhagen: European Environment Agency.

Strand, R., Kovacic, Z., Funtowicz, S., Benini, L. and Jesus, A. (2021). With people and for people: Innovating for sustainability. Narratives for Change series. Briefing 09/2021. Copenhagen: European Environment Agency.

Strand, R., Kovacic, Z., Funtowicz, S., Benini, L. and Jesus, A. (2022). COVID-19: Lessons for sustainability? Narratives for Change series. Briefing 30/2021. Copenhagen: European Environment Agency.

OUTREACH

Invited expert to the European Environment Agency, in the Technical Advisory Board of the project “Drivers of change and implications for European production and consumption” on 3 October 2019, in Copenhagen.

Invited expert to the European Commission, in the Experts’ Scoping Workshop: “Making Sense of Science under conditions of complexity and uncertainty (MASOS)” for the Group of Chief Scientific Advisors to the European Commission on 4 June 2018, in Brussels.

Training series: “Post-normal science for decision making in the context of global environmental crisis” organised by the Generalitat de Catalunya, Barcelona. First workshop: February 7, 2025. Second workshop: April 1, 2025.

Briefing on systemic risk for the UN Deputy Permanent Representatives, hosted by the Accelerator for Systemic Risk Assessment (ASRA) and the United Nations Foundation (UNF). Virtual event, March 28, 2024.

Training event on “Economic sustainability for the 21st century”, in the context of the Knowledge Talks organised by DG Research and Innovation, European Commission. Virtual event (EU learn), February 8, 2022.

Training on sustainability assessment for the National Secretariat of Planning and Development (SENPLADES), Government of Ecuador. Quito, April 2016.

Training on the MuSIASEM approach (Multi-scale Integrated Analysis of Societal and Ecosystem Metabolism) for the National Secretariat of Planning and Development (SENPLADES), Government of Ecuador. Barcelona, March 10-21, 2014.

PHD THESIS

Berta Roset Pérez (on going). Construction of biofuels’ narratives within participatory research for technological innovation. Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. Supervisors: Gonzalo Gamboa, Zora Kovacic.

Alejandro Marcos Valls, 2023. Identity, landscape, and adaptation for sustainability in Menorca. Advancing integration for governance in complexity through Post-Normal Science (PNS). Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. Supervisors: Zora Kovacic, Mario Giampietro, Giorgos Kallis.

Thor Olav Iversen, 2023. Making world hunger legible. The politics of measuring global food insecurity. University of Bergen. Supervisors: Roger Strand, Morten Jerven, Ola Westengen, Zora Kovacic.

Francisco Dausacker Bidone, 2020. From gold to carbon: how narratives and discourses define environmental governance in the Brazilian Amazon. Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. Supervisors: Esteve Corbera, Zora Kovacic.

Suzanne Smit, 2019. Connecting the urban informal settlement to the city: A systems approach. Stellenbosch University. Supervisors: Josephine K. Musango, Alan Brent, Zora Kovacic.

MASTER THESIS

Beatriz Pintón Riesgo, 2025. La transición digital y el dilema ambiental: un análisis del Programa Nacional de Algoritmos Verdes en el contexto de la twin transition. Master Universitario en Innovación y Transformación Digital, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. Supervisors: Zora Kovacic.

Genoveva Sánchez Fernández, 2024. Transición ecológica y digital: el caso de los vehículos eléctricos. Master Universitario en Innovación y Transformación Digital, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. Supervisors: Zora Kovacic and Cristina García Casañas.

Jose Francisco Orozco Melendez, 2022. Incertidumbre y riesgo ambiental en el Sur Global: Alternativas desde la ciencia post-normal. Master in Geography, Autonomous National University of Mexico. Supervisors: Jaime Paneque Galvez and Zora Kovacic.

Epafras Pendapala Shilongo, 2021. Assessing Barriers and Risk factors Hindering Renewable Energy Project Implementation in Developing Countries: A Case Study of Namibia. Master of Sustainable Energy Systems, Namibia University of Science and Technology. Supervisors: James Katende and Zora Kovacic.

Louisa Jane Di Felice, 2016. The electricity metabolism of Spain: Exploring the feasibility, viability and desirability of 100% renewable scenarios. Master in Interdisciplinary Studies in Environmental, Economic and Social Sustainability, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Supervisors: Zora Kovacic and Mario Giampietro.

POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHERS

Cristina García Casañas, 2023-2025. Post-doctoral researcher in DEMO project. Supervisor: Zora Kovacic.

Paloma Yañez Serrano, 2023-2024. Post-doctoral researcher in DEMO project. Supervisors: Zora Kovacic, Lucía Argüelles Ramos.
— 2025-2026. Juan de la Cierva Fellowship. Supervisor: Zora Kovacic.

FORMAL EDUCATION

Contemporary Environmental Challenges I, Bachelor in Management of Sustainability, Digital Transition and the Environment, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain.

History of economic thought, Bachelor in Economics, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain.

Economic history, Bachelor in Economics, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain.

Post-normal science, Master in Environmental Social Sciences, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla, Spain.

Energy Policy, Master in Sustainable Energy Systems, Namibia University of Science and Technology, Windhoek, Namibia.

Interdisciplinary concepts on environmental, economic and social sustainability, Master in Interdisciplinary Studies in Environmental, Economic and Social Sustainability, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain.

NON-FORMAL EDUCATION

Multi-scale Integrated Analysis of Societal and Ecosystem Metabolism applied to rural systems, Multidisciplinary studies about development, the environment, and sustainability (Module CA-238), Faculty of Economics, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morelia, Mexico.

Reflexivity, uncertainty and complexity: introduction to post-normal science. Post-graduate course, Centro de Investigación en Geografía Ambiental, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico.

ACCREDITATIONS

R3 Certificate (Established Researcher) 2025

Advanced research/Full Professor (AQU) 2025

Research/Associate Professor (AQU) 2022

Lecturer (AQU) 2018

AWARDS

Extraordinary Doctorate Award, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona.

FELLOWSHIPS

Senior Ramón y Cajal Fellowship. Funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. (2023-2027)

Postdoctoral Researcher Fellowship, Stellenbosch University. Funded by the School of Public Leadership, Stellenbosch University, South Africa.

Individual Fellowship, NILS Science and Sustainability Programme. Funded by Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway through the EEA Financial Mechanism. Operated by Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Contract 008-ABEL-IM-2014A.

HONORARY POSITIONS

Steering Committee, Accelerator for Systemic Risk Assessment (ASRA), United Nations Foundation.

Advisory board, Horizon Europe project “Rethinking Co-creation of Digital and Environmental Policy in Systems of Multilevel Governance” (RECODE MLG), coordinated by University of Adger (UiA).

LEADERSHIP

Co-director, European Centre for Governance in Complexity.