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Environment, Interactions, and Globalisation
PhD in American History from Jaume I University (Spain), with a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Lisbon (Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, IGOT). Between 2023 and 2024, she served as Cultural Attaché at the Embassy of Ecuador in Madrid, where she coordinated various cultural diplomacy projects. The most significant achievement during her tenure was securing the donation of the first Theobroma cacao plant to the Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid. In 2024, she was the curator of the exhibition “A Plant from Another World” at the same institution.
She was the General Coordinator of the VII Ibero-American Symposium on the History of Cartography (Quito-2018). In 2019, she coordinated the Humboldt250 project at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito, where she has been a full time professor since 2009. She is also the general editor of the collection Enigmas de las Américas. She has participated in numerous international symposia and conferences and has published several academic works on maritime history, the history of cartography, expeditions, shipwrecks, and pirates in the Pacific.
She was part of the coordinating team for the international project on Pacific Islands (https://intushistoria.uai.cl/index.php/intushistoria) and is a member of various research groups in Latin America, the United States, and Europe. She is a research fellow at the Environment, Interactions, and Globalization research group at CHAM – Centre for the Humanities at NOVA University Lisbon. Currently, she is developing a research project in collaboration with a consortium of European universities on the impact of whaling in the Atlantic and Pacific archipelagos.
Her commitment to education and culture is centered on the importance of bridging the past with the present. One of the quotes that inspire her life and career is from the 14th-century Moroccan traveler and explorer Ibn Battuta:
“Traveling—it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” /p>
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