Claudia Heindorf

Claudia Heindorf studied Forestry at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and earned a Master’s in Natural Resource Management in the Tropics and Subtropics from the University of Applied Sciences Cologne and Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí (Mexico) in 2011. She worked for NGOs in Mexico focused on sustainable forestry and urban agriculture. She completed her PhD in 2020 at the Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí on the management and in situ conservation of plant genetic resources in Indigenous land-use systems. After a postdoctoral position at the Ecosystems and Sustainability Research Institute, National Autonomous University of Mexico, working on the transdisciplinary project Cocina Colaboratorio, she joined the Chair of Social-Ecological Interactions in Agricultural Systems at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen in 2021 for the People and Peatlands project. She is currently a researcher on the TransforMed project, investigating the socio-cultural values of agroforestry systems in the Mediterranean. Her research focuses on landscape transformation, landscape values, ethnobotany, biocultural diversity, Indigenous knowledge, agrobiodiversity, and social-ecological systems.