Nicolás Vargas-Ramírez
Nicolás is Ecologist from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Colombia), MSc and PhD in Geography from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He is currently an Associate Academic Technician at the Center for Multidisciplinary Research on Chiapas and the Southern Border of UNAM. Nicolás is self-described as a critical cartographer and an academic activist committed to social and environmental causes. He is part of the Conflict, Region and Rural Societies research group ascribed to the Faculty of Environmental and Rural Studies, member of the Collective for the Protection of the Province of Sugamuxi since 2012, member of the Cartographic Collective of the Global South since 2022, founder and coordinator of the Latin American Network for Community Use of Drones, and member of the Latin American Network for the Defense of Biocultural Heritage.
Country/Region of interest/research focus: Latin America