Denise Margaret Matias is a Professor at the Faculty of Forest and Environment at the Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development. Apart from teaching, she is also leading a project funded by the Volkswagen Foundation called ZooMap focusing on socio-cultural drivers of wildlife consumption and trade of two endangered species in Mongolia and the Philippines, where she is originally from. She was recognised as one of five Planet Earth Awardees in 2024 by the Alliance of World Scientists (AWS) for her outreach work with Indigenous communities in the Philippines. (Photo: © Florian Reischauer)
Prof. Dr. Denise Margaret Matias
Dr. Cleovi Mosuela is a postdoctoral researcher at Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development within the BÖLT Meer project. Dr. Mosuela is a social scientist with a training that has been influenced by mobility, not only in terms of residing in different countries and being exposed to different cultures, but also working in various disciplines - Political Science, Educational Psychology, Sociology and Social Anthropology. She has been interested in research projects that bridge disciplines - including history, human geography, and environmental sciences. In addition to climate adaptation, she has also contributed to the debates on international human migration, the ethics of care and labor, community-making, and social movements.