Mandy Geise
Anthropologist of health, the environment and collective experimentation. She currently studies community-based initiatives, including citizen science and technologies, to assess and adapt to environmental degradation, as a postdoctoral researcher at the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam. She has been working on various topics related to human-environment relations, science and technology studies, citizen science, and global health in Latin America and Europe, including pollution and climate change, disaster response and preparedness, infectious diseases, and the sociopolitical aspects of food.
Mandy also collaborates with the NGO the Ocean and Us, exploring multispecies relations in ocean governance and community-driven and care-ful approaches to conservation and protection of the deep sea and its inhabitants.
In her work Mandy uses and combines collaborative and qualitative methods and often works together with researchers from diverse disciplines, practitioners, civil society organizations, community organizers and activists. She obtained her PhD from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris.
Country/Region of interest/research focus: Mexico, Costa Rica, Chile, Ecuador, Pacific Ocean, Spain, the Netherlands