Marta Conde

Marta Conde is a Long Term Researcher at the Institute of Earth Sciences Jaume Almera (GEO3BCN), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), and holds a Ramón y Cajal fellowship (2024). Her research addresses socio-environmental conflicts, environmental justice, and science-activism dynamics, with critical focus on extractive industries, deep sea mining governance, and post-growth transitions.

Her educational background:

• PhD in Environmental Science, Institute for Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA), Autonomous University of Barcelona (2015)
• Master in Interdisciplinary Studies in Environmental, Economic and Social Sustainability, ICTA, UAB (2009)
• Postgraduate in Environmental Science, Birkbeck College, University of London (2001)
• Graduate in Agricultural Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona (2000)

Conde's research integrates Science and Technology Studies (STS) with political ecology to examine knowledge co-production in environmental conflicts. Her work spans extractive industry impacts, deep sea mining governance, urban gentrification, and degrowth theory, emphasizing community-led solutions for environmental justice and just transitions. This interdisciplinary approach bridges academic research with activist movements to challenge conventional sustainability paradigms.

Her major recognitions include:

• Ramón y Cajal fellowship (2024) - Spain's premier research talent program
• I3 certification (2022) - National excellence in research leadership
• Marie Sklodowska Curie fellowship for Governing Resource Urbanisation (2021)
• Co-PI for Recercaixa project 'Activism Mobilising Science' (2018)

Conde has secured competitive funding across international institutions: Marie Sklodowska fellowships at University of Queensland (2023) and ICTA-UAB (2025), EU project coordination for NATURVATION and B-MINCOME (2018), and Recercaixa project leadership at Pompeu Fabra University/John Hopkins (2020). Her Durham University affiliation (2016) established her early research trajectory in critical geography.

Embedded in global research networks, she collaborates with the Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining and EU environmental governance initiatives, driving transdisciplinary work that connects academic rigor with frontline environmental justice movements through sustained knowledge co-production practices.