Geographer, professor of Geography, two undergraduate and graduate courses in Geography at the Paulista State University – UNESP, Presidente Prudente campus and the Postgraduate Program in Territorial Development in Latin America and the Caribbean at UNESP, São Paulo campus; Researcher 1B of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq); Coordinator of the UNESCO Chair of Territorial Development and Rural Education; Postdoc at the University of South Florida; Guest professor at the National University of Córdoba (2008/2014); Guest professor at the National University of La Plata (2019); Guest professor at the National University of Santiago del Estero (2017); Visiting Professor at Stanford University (2016); Visiting Professor at Cardiff University (2018) Visiting Professor at the University of Oregon (2022); Coordinator of the Rural Development in Latin America working group, of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences - CLACSO - 2005/2010 and member of the Steering Committee (2016/2022). Member of the Socioterritorial Movements Working Group in Comparative Critical Perspective of CLACSO (2023-current).

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She holds a PhD in Geography from the University of Münster, Germany, and a Master of Environmental Sciences from the Universidad Autónoma de la Universidad de San Luís Potosí, Mexico and the University of Applied Sciences in Cologne, Germany. She was Professor of Political Ecology at the University of Münster, Germany, in the years 2018-2021. 

She is currently Co-Manager of the Maria Sybilla Merian Centre for Advanced Latin American Studies (CALAS) at the University of Guadalajara, Mexico, from 2021 until now. From 2022-2023 she was Scientific Coordinator of CALAS - Knowledge Laboratory: The Anthropocene as a multiple crisis: Perspectives from Latin America. 

Research Themes: Political Ecology, Socio-Ecological Conflicts in the Maciz Colombiano in Colombia, Social and Peasant Movements in Colombia, Anthropocene.

To see the full CV, go to the website http://lattes.cnpq.br/2836764800084585  or here http://www.bv.fapesp.br/pt/pesquisador/92581/bernardo-mancano-fernandes/