María Fernanda López Sandoval is a senior lecturer at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences, FLACSO-Ecuador. She studied her undergraduate degree in Geography at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador and did her PhD in Human Geography at the University of Regensburg (Germany) with a post-doctoral research stay at the University of Erlangen Nuremberg (Germany). She is a founding member of the Geographical Association of Ecuador and editor-in-chief of Iconos, a social science journal for Latin America.

Professor - researcher at the Department of Sociocultural Studies of the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente (ITESO). PhD in Social Scientific Studies, in the area of Communication, Culture and Society. Master in Science and Culture Communication. Member of the National System of Researchers, Level II. Full Professor at ITESO. Her lines of research are located at the intersection between Public Communication of Science and Communication of socio-environmental problems.

PhD in the area of Communication, Culture and Social of the Doctorate in Scientific-Social Studies of the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente - Universidad Jesuita de Guadalajara, Mexico (2009-2014). Thesis with honorable mention entitled: From/Coloniality of nature, Transnational mining in Crucitas and insurgents of border power-knowledge. M.A. and B.A. in Social Anthropology from the University of Costa Rica (UCR).

PhD in Anthropology from the University of Manchester, United Kingdom. Degree in Anthropological Sciences from the University of the Republic of Uruguay. Postgraduate Diploma in Urban Environmental Management from IHS Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Post-doctorate in Development Studies at the Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, Mexico.

Head of Sociourban Studies Department of the University Center of Social Sciences and Humanities (CUCSH) of University of Guadalajara. Doctor in History from University of Bielefeld, Germany. Master in Social Sciences de la Universidad de Guadalajara. Member of the National Research System in Mexico (SNI) since 2016.

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