Victoria Reyes-García (PhD Anthropology, 2001, University of Florida) is an ICREA Research Professor at the Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB). Her research focuses on Indigenous and local knowledge systems, particularly their relationships with the natural environment and their relevance for understanding and addressing climate and environmental crises. She co-founded the Laboratory of Analysis of Social-Ecological Systems in a Global World (LASEG), which studies the impacts of global change on socio-ecosystems. Her latest ERC-funded project, LICCI, examined local perceptions of climate change impacts. She has contributed to the IPBES Transformative Change Assessment and is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences (2021) and the Académie d’Agriculture de France (2022). In 2025, she received the Premi Rei Jaume I for Environmental Protection.

My research encompasses the interdisciplinary study of the dynamic relations among peoples, biota, and environments. I use a multidisciplinary perspective (working with ecologists, economists, psychologists, agronomists, archaeologists, and computer scientists) and empirical data to analyse 1) the impacts of global change on rural livelihoods and local environments and 2) social responses to environmental changes. My research draws on insights from anthropology and the behavioural sciences to work at multiple levels- from the views of villagers in developing nations to those of policy-makers in industrial nations. My current areas of research include 1) local indicators of climate change impacts, 2) transformative change for sustainability, 3) the adaptive nature of local environmental knowledge, 4) Indigenous peoples and cultural change, and 5) local engagement in biodiversity conservation.