Name: Marta Nieto Romero
Email: marta.nietor@gmail.com

Marta Nieto Romero is a researcher focused on the social dimensions of sustainability transformation. She is particularly interested in communal forms of living with nature, and in transdisciplinary and action research. She currently works as a researcher within the project eGROUNDWATER.  (https://egroundwater.com), where she is involved in a participatory research process to catalyse more participatory and sustainable forms of managing (ground)water in Algarve (South Portugal). Her research has always been at the interface of ecosystems and society, collaborating in international projects with ecologists, engineers, social scientists and civil society.
Her journey into the social component of sustainability sciences started when, having graduated in Biology, she developed a Master’s thesis for a Master’s of Arts in Ecology, on  agroecosystems from a social-ecological perspective. Intrigued about how to engage society in nature conservation, she embarked in a transdisciplinary Master's degree in Rural Sustainability and Planning from the IAMZ-CIHEAM. Awarded with a Marie Curie ITN, she then started her PhD on the linkages between communal care for forests, community well-being and democracy, graduating in 2022 with a PhD in Rural Sociology by the Wageningen University.