Former members

Rebecca Borges

Postdoctoral researcher

Rebecca is responsible for the database management and the spatial analyses of the project. She is a Brazilian-German. Rebecca holds a PhD in marine ecology obtained at the Leibniz Institute for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT), in Bremen, Germany, in collaboration with the Federal University of Pará (UFPA), Bragança, Pará, Brasil. 

Her work aims to bring together anti- and decolonial epistemologies and struggles related to conservation ethics and more-than-human relations. Her long-term research focuses on social-ecological systems, coastal-marine spatial planning, and knowledge exchange and coproduction. She investigates the governance of marine commons in the context of accentuating capitalist crises.

Claire Karaguesian

Research assistant

Claire Karaguesian is a Canadian Master's graduate in Sociology and Demography at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. She is part of the Johns Hopkins University - Universitat Pompeu Fabra Public Policy Center. She holds a BSc in kinesiology with a specialization in mental health, addiction, and society from McMaster University in Canada. 

Claire received the McMaster Kinesiology Research Award for her research analyzing oral contraceptive's influence on fasting glucose and lipid levels. Some of her other research work includes contributions on metabolism, nutrition and physiology. She presented her various works at the Ontario Exercise Physiology Conferences. Claire also contributed to community-based research at McMaster University's Research Shop, helping organizations analyze accessibility gaps and barriers faced by marginalized residents in accessing social services to improve their services.

Lev Jordà

Collaborator

Lev Jordà Vico graduated in Economics from Pompeu Fabra University. He entered the field of economics driven by curiosity to understand the tools and frameworks that explain economic behavior and public policies, but over time this interest has shifted towards questions that the traditional academic canon often leaves out: how economics dialogues with politics, anthropology and economic psychology, and how culture and institutions shape economic systems. He was part of Post-Crash UPF, a student association that promotes dialogue between economics and other social sciences from a plural perspective. He currently collaborates with the DIVERSE project as a research assistant, supporting the transcription and processing of qualitative interviews in Spanish and English.

Mia Lanča

Collaborator

Mia Lanča is a master's student at the University of Pompeu Fabra, whose interests lie at the intersection of the just green and digital transition. She is particularly interested in the emancipatory and sustainability potentials of open, bottom-up digital technologies. Her current research focuses on the development of grassroots digital sovereignty initiatives in Barcelona.