Marina García Llorente

Collaborator

Full Professor in the Department of Ecology and researcher at the Socio-Ecosystems Laboratory of the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM). She holds a degree in Environmental Sciences (2006) and a PhD in Ecology and the Environment (2011) from UAM. Since then, she has developed her career by integrating ecology, social analysis, rural development, and agricultural sciences.

She has worked as a postdoctoral researcher in national and international institutions such as the University of Almería (2012), the University of Oxford (2012), and the Department of Social Analysis at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (2013–2015) through the competitive Alianza 4Universidades program. Between 2015 and 2019, she worked at the Madrid Institute for Rural Development, Agricultural and Food Research (IMIDRA) under a competitive contract awarded by the National Institute for Agricultural and Food Research and Technology (INIA).

Since then, she has pursued a line of research from a transdisciplinary perspective, bridging science, management, and practice. This approach has enabled her to combine socio-ecological and agroecological frameworks, deepening the analysis of ecosystem services in agricultural systems, the promotion of agroecology, inclusive social farming, and the implementation of open agriculture laboratories (Agrolab) aimed at revitalizing the agricultural sector and rural areas.