DR. DENISE MARGARET

Prof. Dr. Denise Margaret Matias is a Professor at the Department of Forest, Wood, and Environment at the Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development in Germany. She previously held research and postdoctoral positions in projects focusing on grasslands sustainability in Mongolia, climate change adaptation, and Indigenous forestry livelihoods in the Philippines. In 2024, she was recognised as one of six Planet Earth Awardees by the Alliance of World Scientists (AWS) for her outreach work with Indigenous communities in the Philippines and was also given the Kalayaan Award for Science by the Philippine Embassy in Berlin in the same year. She is currently leading two projects focusing on the South China Sea: BÖLT Meer (Biodiversity, Economy, Livelihoods and Traditions in the South China Sea: towards a transdisciplinary research strategy) funded by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space of Germany (BMFTR) and the European Biodiversity Partnership (Biodiversa+) project PaCE (Peace and Conservation of Ecology at Disputed Seas) funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). For more information on PaCE, please visit www.pace-biodiversa.eu (Photo ©Florian Reischauer)

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