Celia got her Licenciatura (long cycle degree) in Biology at the University of Granada (Spain) in 2015.

 

Her areas of interest are plant ecology, science promotion and environmental education. She gained experience through different projects in Spain, Estonia and Azores Islands (Portugal). In the Azores, she has been involved in different actions related to Azorean forests ecology, population relationships with local biodiversity and citizen science. She is now developing her PhD thesis on stakeholders’ perspectives on invasive alien species and the usefulness of communication tools at the University of Murcia (Spain).

 

Celia joined the Joint Research Center in 2018 as a trainee and continued as an external consultant. Here, she is working on citizen science and the development of the communication strategy of EASIN.