Amanda Jiménez-Aceituno

Dr. Amanda Jiménez-Aceituno serves as Managing Director of the Institute for Sustainable Development and Learning (ISDL) at Leuphana University Lüneburg and is a researcher at the Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University (Sweden). She holds a PhD from the Interuniversitary Program on Environmental Education at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain), with a focus on biodiversity conservation through ESD frameworks. Her work integrates field research in Costa Rica and the University of Florida, alongside postdoctoral research in Sustainability Transformations under the GRAID programme.

Education:

• PhD in Environmental Education, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain)
• Bachelor's in Environmental Sciences, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain)

Research Interests:

Her research emphasizes fostering transformational impacts of sustainability initiatives, particularly in dryland agricultural systems of South-East Spain through collaboration with the Universidad de Almería. She specializes in co-creating pathways toward Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), integrating social-ecological systems theory, and advancing participatory methodologies in biodiversity conservation.

Labs/Teams:

• Institute for Sustainable Development and Learning (ISDL)
• Social-Ecological Systems Institute (SESI)