Mauricio Folchi (Santiago de Chile, 1971) is an academic in the Department of Historical Sciences of the University of Chile, Doctor in Economic History from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, a ​​specialist in Environmental History and socio-environmental studies. His main lines of research are environmental history (mining, energy, and forestry) and the analysis of environmental conflicts. He is currently Director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Socio-environmental Studies (NIES); He is also the academic coordinator of the Diploma in Socio-environmental Studies and in charge of the General Training Course "Environmental Problems of Chile"; all from the University of Chile. He has been a visiting professor at the Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona), at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, ​​at the University of Caldas (Colombia), and at the National University of Costa Rica, where he has taught courses in Economic History, Environmental History, Political Ecology and Interdisciplinarity.

Research topic as a fellow of CALAS:

Title: Naturalization and patrimonialization of artificial forests in Chile