Current Funding: https://doi.org/10.54499/DL57/2016/CP1372/CT0017 Since 2017 I have been the PI and Co-PI of around 6 national and international projects. My Ph.D. is in Environmental Science specialized in territorial planning with a focus on sustainable management of natural resources. I am a contracted researcher at MED - Mediterranean Institute for Agriculture, Environment and Development. I have published 37 scientific articles in peer-reviewed and international scientific journals, 3 books, 7 book chapters. I received 4 scientific prizes/honorable mentions and currently supervise of 1 Ph.D. students. My research combines theory and practice to develop transformative solutions and uncover vital knowledge through transdisciplinary facilitation with a specific focus on sustainability at the local and global scale. With my background in biology I use concepts such as carrying capacity, non-linear relationships, and resilience in structuring collaborative dialogue between scientific and tacit knowledge. In the process I explore the critical role, skill sets and value of transdisciplinary facilitators: people whose role is to purposefully create the conditions that allow representatives of different disciplines, of the private and the public sectors, and of the civil society, to co-produce knowledge. Such facilitation models and roles are already well utilized in the field of urban development with the implementation of co-design processes in planning projects. I believe that transdisciplinary facilitation applied to natural resource management will be transformative for the effective implementation of sustainable management actions if underpinned by research. My work is double folded into two mainstreams: (1) systems thinking and participatory approaches in the development of decision support systems to the analysis of management options where I explore the application of Systems Approach Framework (SAF) to the recovery and maintenance of social-ecological systems and (2) development of methodological approaches, principals and conditions to advance the field of transdiciplinarity. In summary, to date, my work has successfully applied and tested the SAF in natural resource management (i.e. maintenance of a fishing community, water quality in estuaries, wetland recovery, improvement of agro-silvo-pastoral systems). I have demonstrated that dialogue between disciplines and social actors is possible and can be effective for the production of robust solutions to sustainability problems in 8 different research processes. My current research focuses on: 1) Evaluation of transdisciplinary research process and outcomes. Most of the literature dedicated to the evaluation of transdisciplinary research is focus on improving the process at the level of funding proposals or assessing the outputs and outcomes of finalized projects. In these cases, evaluation is developed by external reviewers and juries. My focus is on methods that allow the evaluation of transdisciplinary by its own participants. The literature on this topic is scarce and empirical work is needed. More work on this topic will not only allow the improvement of available methodologies but also to track if transdisciplinary is understood as literature describes it and also if current processes need improvements. - I am also focused on testing the use of the Social-Ecological Framework (SES) in transdisciplinarity. The SES framework was developed by the Nobel prize winner Elinor Ostrom and I am using it to structure the contextualization step of transdisciplinary processes. In 2021 a book on the governance of the Iberian silvo- astoral system, edited by me and other colleagues, come out. This is one of the first books fully dedicated to the characterization and analysis of the human factor of these social-ecological systems.