Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares 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 the Botany Unit of the Department of Animal Biology, Plant Biology and Ecology (BABVE) and at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA-UAB) of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He holds a PhD in Environmental Sciences (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2015) and seven years of postdoctoral experience at the University of Helsinki (Finland). He has more than 32 months of in-depth ethnographic field-based engagement with different Indigenous communities in the Global South (e.g., the Tsimane’ people of the Bolivian Amazon, Maasai and Daasanach people of the Kenyan Rift Valley). He has published more than a hundred scientific articles, and his research has received several awards, such as Olli’s Prize from the University of Helsinki or the Catalan Research Prize on Environmental Science.
The IEK-CHANGES project is an ERC Starting Grant funded by the European Union (IEK-CHANGES, 101117423) to Dr. Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares.
Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Council Executive Agency. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
El proyecto IEK-CHANGES es una beca «Starting Grant» del Consejo Europeo de Investigación (ERC) financiada por la Unión Europea (IEK-CHANGES, 101117423) y concedida al Dr. Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares.
No obstante, las opiniones y puntos de vista expresados son exclusivamente de los autores y no reflejan necesariamente los de la Unión Europea ni los de la Agencia Ejecutiva del Consejo Europeo de Investigación. Ni la Unión Europea ni la autoridad que concede la subvención se hacen responsables de los mismos.
