Geographer and researcher specialising in biodiversity conservation and governance, natural resources and sustainability, working from multiscalar, gender-sensitive and interethnic perspectives and employing qualitative and participatory methods. She completed her undergraduate studies in Geographical Sciences and Sustainable Development (with a specialisation in Spatial Planning) at the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador (PUCE) and obtained her PhD from the Friedrich Alexander University (FAU) of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Germany). Until 2022, she served as scientific coordinator and data manager of the FLACSO–FAU–DAAD project on biodiversity governance in Biosphere Reserves. Her research has focused primarily on the Amazon, the Andes and the Galápagos. She also has teaching experience in Ecuador, Germany and Spain, has supervised theses, reviewed scientific articles and coordinated academic events. She has collaborated with the School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary as Principal Investigator on a project examining the interrelations between conservation policies and extractivism. Since 2023 she has been an associate researcher at the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC) and, from 2025, collaborates with the Santo Domingo Centre of Excellence for Latin American Research (SDCELAR) at the British Museum.
