Susana Carmona Castillo is an assistant professor at University College Maastricht, where she researches development anthropology and political ecology with a focus on mining and extractive industries in Latin America and the Global South. Her work analyzes corporate legitimization strategies, environmental controversies and socio-economic impacts of mining. Before joining Maastricht University, she was a researcher at Ruhr University Bochum and obtained her PhD at the Universidad de los Andes with a dissertation on the case of coal mining in La Guajira, Colombia. In addition to her research, she teaches courses on Latin American history and politics, extractivism and environmental justice.