Team
Meet the team behind GreenFrontier
The team consists of George Iordăchescu as Principal Investigator and three Post-Doctoral Researchers, Marco Immovilli, Eleonora Fanari and Mariusz Boćkowski. Each team member carries their own research within the GreenFrontier framework.
The project is based in the Forest and Nature Conservation Policy Group at Wageningen University.
George Iordăchescu
Principal Investigator
George is a political ecologist researching the politics of conservation and just environmental futures. George has a background in social anthropology and contemporary history, and his work spans the disciplines of human geography, green criminology and conservation social sciences. His research interests include the governance of nature protection in the European Union, human-bear conflicts & coexistence, environmental crime and environmental politics in Europe.
He gained his PhD in 2019 from the IMT School of Advanced Studies (Lucca, Italy) with a dissertation about the development of strict protection of wild nature in eastern Europe and its impact on local livelihoods.
Marco Immovilli
Post-Doctoral Researcher
Marco’s bio
Mariusz Boćkowski
Post-Doctoral Researcher
Mariusz is a conservation biologist and social scientist whose research is focused on environmental protection. His research interests include the social and economic aspects of nature conservation relating to protected areas, ecological connectivity, ecosystem services, blue and green infrastructure, environmental management and governance, and public participation in nature conservation. His work also encompasses the intricacies of human-nature relations and environmental conflicts. Mariusz’s current focus is on the relationship between humans and the environment, with a particular emphasis on the analytical frameworks of political ecology and environmental anthropology.
Eleonora Fanari
Post-Doctoral Researcher
Eleonora’s bio
Advisory Board
The Advisory Board is an important part of the project, they advise the team on conceptual, research design and general functioning of the project throughout its lifetime.
Prof Rosaleen Duffy
- University of Sheffield
Advisory Board Member
Dr Dace Dzenovska - University of Oxford
Advisory Board Member
Dr Monica Vasile - University of Oulu
Advisory Board Member
Prof Georg Winkel - Wageningen University
Advisory Board Member
Prof Mariolina Eliantonio - Maastricht University
Advisory Board Member
Invitation to collaborate
If you would like to learn more about our work, or would like to contribute to the project with your own research, please get in touch by writing to george.iordachescu@wur.nl.