Sophia Winkler-Schor

Sophia is a Postdoctoral research assosciate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research is focused on fostering the adoption of biodiversity conservation practices in agricultural contexts and forest-dependent communities across Latin America. Sophia’s doctoral research looked at how to leverage insights from psychology to improve the design of short-term financial incentive programs to increase long-term adoption of conservation practices among Indigenous landholders in Mexico. Sophia’s research uses a mixed-methods approach drawing predominantly from the conservation social sciences and social psychology. Sophia received her bachelor’s degrees in environmental science (BSc) and environmental studies (BA) with a focus on Latin American Studies from the University of Washington (USA) and a bi-national Master of International Nature Conservation at the Universität Göttingen and Lincoln University (New Zealand).