Valentina Martínez Ramón is a PhD Candidate in the Environmental Geography group at the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM). Her research focuses on the development of meso-scale land use modelling tools that better capture nature’s values and integrate feedback loops, to support land use planning for socio-ecological wellbeing.
Valentina holds a Master of Science in Resilient Food and Farming Systems at Wageningen University & Research and a Bachelor of Science in Biology at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. For her MSc Thesis, she conducted transdisciplinary research within the Horizon project Agroecology-TRANSECT, where she mapped and examined the governance structures and power dynamics in the chestnut value chain in the Sierra de Aracena (Spain), identifying barriers and leverage points for an agroecological transformation.
Before joining VU Amsterdam, she worked for nearly two years as a Junior Researcher in the Farming Systems Ecology (FSE) and Plant Production Systems (PPS) groups at Wageningen University & Research. During this time, she mainly contributed to the CGIAR Program on Multifunctional Landscapes, as well as to the Mixed Farming Systems project.
Expertise
Socio-ecological interactions, complex systems analysis, (political) agroecology, system transformation
Education
2024: MSc Resilient Food and Farming Systems – Wageningen University & Research
2021: BSc Biology – Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
