Sandra Ricart is assistant professor at the Environmental Intelligence for Global Change Lab, at the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering. As human-environment geographer, she received his BA in Geography and MSc in Environmental Sciences from the University of Girona, Spain. She received a PhD in Experimental Sciences and Sustainability-Geography in 2014 after a visiting period at Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour (FR) and Università degli Studi di Milano (IT). Sandra was postdoctoral researcher at the University of Girona, University of Alicante, Politecnico di Milano, and Wageningen University & Research, and visiting scholar at Lancare Research Centre New Zealand and the University of California Los Angeles.
She joined the Environmental Intelligence for Global Change Lab in 2020 with a Marie Sklodowska Curie IF and since end 2022 she is assistant professor at DEIB. She is academic guest at the Water and Territory research group (Interuniversity Institute of Geography, University of Alicante) as lecturer in different MSc on management of natural risks, sustainable water management, and environmental law. Main research interests include climate change perceived impacts and adaptive capacity through stakeholder analysis and behaviour modelling, and water management and governance in socio-ecological systems from social-learning and risk analysis. Sandra co-authored more than 50 publications indexed in WoS and Scopus journals, attended more than 70 international and national conferences, and participated in dozen international and national research projects and research networks.
She is currently assistant editor of the International Journal of Water Resources Development, PLOS One, Frontiers in Agronomy, and Cogent Social Sciences. Sandra acted as expert review by the European Commission, Agence Nationale de la Recherche, Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development, Latvian Council of Science, and the Dutch Research Council, among others. In 2022, she received the I3 Program Certificate of Outstanding Research Trajectory, one of the most prestigious tenure-track research programs, by the Spanish State Research Agency (AEI) and the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.