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Olga Hernandez

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Olga Hernandez


  • Position:
    Postdoctoral Researcher
  • Main Research Field:
    Landscape sustainability analysis, connectivity, ecosystem services, the economics of ecosystems and biodiversity, agro-food systems, nexus WEFE/B, health, climate change, governance, citizen science and nature-based solutions in urban-rural areas.
  • BC3 Research Line:
    4. Research Line Adaptation Lab
  • Contact information:
    Email address: olga.hernandez@bc3research.org
    Contact phone: +34 94 401 46 90 / Ext. 192
  • ORCID ID: 0000-0001-5415-3481
  • Download CV:  CV_OlgaluHernandez2023 

Short CV

Olgalu Hernandez is an inter/trans-disciplinary researcher and project manager, focusing on the sustainability of urban-rural landscapes (multifunctionality, productivity, and well-being). She is a biologist with a European Ph.D. in Biodiversity: conservation and management of species (University of Alicante, 2012). Her most recent roles were Principal research in sustainability in urban-rural landscapes and Head of the social science and biodiversity knowledge program at Instituto de investigación de Recursos biológicos Alexander von Humboldt (Bogotá, Colombia).

For the last ten years, she had focused on leading, researching, and managing inter/trans-disciplinary environmental participatory projects and teams on topics such as landscape sustainability analysis, connectivity, ecosystem services, the economics of ecosystems and biodiversity, agro-food systems, nexus WEFE/B, health, climate change, governance, citizen science and nature-based solutions in urban-rural areas. Furthermore, I strengthened knowledge networks like REDECOHH, IPBES, TEEB Agrifood, and ESP. She is a review editor for IPBES in "Chapter 1: Introducing the nexus of the thematic assessment of the interlinkages among biodiversity, water, food, and health (nexus assessment)”.

She had participated in knowledge transfer through (i) Colombian territorial processes of community development with indigenous people (Quillasinga, Pastos, and Awá) and peasants (Montes de María, Colombian coffee region, Llanos Orientales); (ii) publications for the social appropriation of knowledge and scientific publications record with 13 indexed papers ISI-SCOPUS (6 Q1) in top-level academic journals and 4 in Q2, 2 editor books, 22 book chapters, and more than 50 geographic spatial analysis of landscape and biodiversity; (iii) presented research and organized panel sessions at more than 30 national and international congresses and (iv) several workshops and courses for the non-scientific public. As well as advising doctoral and master students since 2018.

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