Marco Armiero

Marco Armiero serves as an ICREA Research Professor at the Institute of History of Science, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). He has held significant leadership roles including president of the European Society for Environmental History since 2019 and director of Stockholm's Environmental Humanities Laboratory from 2013 to 2022, establishing it as a global center for environmental humanities research.

His research fundamentally bridges environmental humanities and political ecology, with core expertise in environmental history, history of science, totalitarianism, and migration studies. Armiero's work critically examines intersections between ecological systems and political power structures, emphasizing historical contexts of environmental crises and human displacement.

As director of the Environmental Humanities Laboratory, he pioneered interdisciplinary collaborations that shaped the field globally. His current presidency of the European Society for Environmental History reflects ongoing leadership in advancing scholarly discourse. Armiero actively mentors graduate students and leads research initiatives examining environmental justice within historical frameworks of authoritarianism and forced migration.