Panagiota is a senior researcher at ICTA-UAB, a core member of the Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainabilityt (bcnuej.org) and the PI of IMBRACE. She is a biologist by training (National University of Athens, Greece), with a Master’s degree on Environmental Studies (Universidade de Aveiro, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), and a PhD in Development Studies from the University of Bonn (ZEF -Center for development Studies). Her research spans from the politics of water and sanitation development to the bio/necro-politics of public health, the neoliberalisation of urban nature, and the grassroots struggles for urban climate and health justice, particularly in relation to migration and racialized groups. She has been co-PI in the H2020 WEGO-ITN (wegoitn.org) on feminist political ecology and a founding member of the Undisciplined Environments collective.

(Languages: Eng, Cat, Spa, Greek)

Sergio has been a postdoctoral researcher at the lab since 2024. His main research interests include processes of urban commoning and self-organisation, militant and engaged approaches to research, and environmental justice. He works for the ERC-CoG IMBRACE project, which looks at what shapes immigrants’ climate health vulnerability and how situated knowledges inform both their own response capacities and urban climate adaptation more broadly, towards more effective and just approaches. From 2018 to 2022 Sergio was a doctoral Marie-Skłodowska fellow with the RECOMS ITN and completed his PhD at the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience, Coventry University in 2023. That same year, he got a postdoctoral position at University of Barcelona working on the H2020 CULTIVATE project, where he examined processes of urban food sharing in Europe. Sergio’s academic praxis is informed by his involvement in several grassroots organisations struggling for socioenvironmental justice. He has also been regularly involved in teaching since 2018, from undergraduate to doctoral levels.

Susana is a postdoctoral researcher at ICTA-UAB and member of the Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability (bcnuej.org), where she works on the IMBRACE project. She holds a PhD in Human Geography from University College London (UK) and a Master’s Degree in Urban Studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science (UK). Her research focuses on urban infrastructures, particularly water, as lenses to explore socio-environmental inequalities in urban spaces. She is also interested in debates on knowledge production and participatory methodologies. Susana has recently completed a Marie-Curie Fellowship at the Laboratoire Territoires Techniques et Sociétès (LATTS) in Paris. Prior to that she held an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Cambridge.

Fizza holds a double M.Sc. in International Cooperation in Urban Development from TU Darmstadt in Germany, with a specialisation in Sustainable Emergency Architecture from UIC Barcelona in Spain. She started her career as an architect in Pakistan and graduated summa cum laude from NED University. Her work and engagement with development agencies, governments, research institutes, nonprofits and the private sector have helped her cultivate a multidisciplinary and systems thinking approach. At BCNUEJ, she is part of the ERC-CoG IMBRACE project, which investigates the intersectional drivers of climate health vulnerability for majority world immigrants across European cities. Building on her urbanist background, she aims to explore the nexus between immigrants and local adaptive solutions, contributing to scholarship and policy advocacy on postcolonial feminist urbanism.

Kim holds a BSc in Pharmacology from the University of Leeds and an MSc in International Public Health from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, and is also completing an MSc in Political Ecology, Environmental Justice, and Degrowth at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. She has a background in the medico-humanitarian sector and her expertise lies at the intersection of climate change, armed conflict, displacement, and health, primarily in Majority World contexts. She brings a multidisciplinary approach to her work, combining epidemiology, social sciences research, and policy advocacy to address complex global challenges. As part of the IMBRACE team, Kim’s work focuses on the climate health vulnerabilities of immigrants in Dublin and Antwerp. Her research explores how and why immigrants are disproportionately affected by flooding and extreme precipitation, examining the factors shaping their vulnerabilities and the ways in which their situated knowledge informs their adaptive responses. Through her work, she aims to contribute to more effective and equitable urban climate adaptation strategies that prioritise justice and inclusivity.

Lourenço is a research assistant for the IMBRACE project, with a master's degree in Political Ecology from ICTA-UAB. Over the past few years, he has been actively engaged in Barcelona's housing movement, more specifically in the Sindicat d'Habitatge del Raval, a local housing union, as well as being involved in self-managed, squatted militant spaces in his neighbourhood, such as the Antiga Massana and the Agora Juan Andrés Benitez. He was previously the project manager for BCNUEJ's "Raval Resilient" project, which employed the Photovoice methodology to explore the links between extreme climate events and the health of migrants.

Eva holds a Master in Environmental, Economic, and Social Sustainability from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, with a focus in Ecological Economics, and a Bachelor in Social Sciences and Latin American Studies from the University of Cologne. Her earlier research focused on the gendered and migratory experiences of Latin American communities, where she was born and raised. Her current work centers on environmental justice, with an emphasis on intersectionality and the ways in which social factors—such as gender, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status—shape vulnerability and adaptation. At BCNUEJ, she contributed to a pilot project of the IMBRACE project, studying heat vulnerability and adaptation strategies of Majority World migrants in Berlin.