Maria
Cifre Sabater

Maria Cifre Sabater has a degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). She earned her PhD in Environmental Anthropology from the University of Kent in the UK with a thesis entitled "Changing forests in a changing Mediterranean island: forests, fires and heritagisation of the landscape in Serra de Tramuntana, Mallorca". Her doctoral research was funded by the University of Kent's 50th Anniversary Scholarship. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the UOC's Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3) working on the project "WUICOM-BCN Fire resilient interface communities in Barcelona". Cifre Sabater has ten years' research experience, focusing on the social, historical and environmental aspects of fire in the Mediterranean, environmental management and the social impact of protected natural areas, and the transformation and heritagization of cultural landscapes. She has also designed, coordinated and led applied research projects in interdisciplinary teams, covering issues that include the risk of forest fire at the urban-forest interface, community-based forestry management, the conservation of cultural landscapes and circular economy networks in rural areas. Cifre Sabater has spent research periods at Pablo de Olavide University (Seville, 2017) and at the University of the Balearic Islands (Mallorca, 2017). She has also participated in many scientific congresses and seminars in Spain and abroad, and has taught seminars on bachelor's degree and postgraduate courses.