Esteve Corbera research focuses on the study of environmental public policies in the areas of climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation, and how these impact livelihoods in the global South and transform resource management institutions and people’s behavior. With increasing concern over global climate change and biodiversity loss, his research analyses if policy investments on sustainable land-use and forest conservation programs are effective and which implications they have on the wellbeing of affected populations. He is currently conducting research in Mexico and Colombia.

Carla Lancelotti research focuses on the essential role of plants for the adaptation and resilience of past and present socio-ecological systems in drylands. Her work examines dryland crop farming strategies, drawing on archaeobotany and Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) to inform current agricultural practice in regions threatened by climate change-driven aridification. She is currently working in South Asia and Africa, where desertification is massively affecting food-security and where the presence of a long archaeological record testifies of past successful adaptations of human groups.

Francisco Ortega research focuses on the interactions between global biopsychiatry and local psychiatric epistemologies. His work examines the extent to which global mental health initiatives appropriately address mental health challenges in the global South, with a focus on the role of culture in mental health. To that end, he explores the historical roots, and the political and epistemological aspects present in the discussion about cultural diversity and mental health, and investigates experiences in public mental health that incorporate the cultural dimension. His research assumes that integrating cultural studies in mental health can help describe and interpret the complexity of the issues involved in mental health care in global times. He is currently conducting research in Brazil. 

Diana applies machine learning and cutting-edge technology to analyse key cultural transformation processes within a transnational and cultural analytics approach. She is fascinated by the circulation of cultural goods and the study of how historical networks offer new insights into patterns of cultural change. Within a sociological and digital humanities perspective, her research pushes forward global literary and cultural history to analyse multiple connections that go beyond intercultural entanglements in Europe or the Western world. Her research is grounded in a decentred and empirical approach, a big data turn, and a focus on agents and social network research to abandon the focus on innovative centres and imitative peripheries, when studying large accounts of literary and translation processes between spaces and over time. She is the PI of an ERC StG (2018-2023).