Diego Sanz Yus

Diego Sanz Yus is a transdisciplinary biologist that has based his interests since the beginning of his academic years in the interaction between natural and social sciences. PhD student with IDAEA-CSIC and University of Barcelona, studying socioecological interactions of the petroleum industry on the Ecuadorian Amazon. The thesis will be part as well of the project GLOBSALT, “A global analysis of the impacts of salinization on aquatic biodiversity”. He is currently involved in the project SALBIA (2024-2027) “Assessing the impacts of salinization on the River Gambia”, specifically in local communities and adaptation strategies (SALBIA-SOC).

Diego graduated in Biology in 2019 with the University of Oviedo, where he got involved in a project of environmental DNA of Anguilla anguilla populations published in the International Congress of the Spanish Society of Ethology and Evolutionary Ecology (2018). In 2019 he finished his bachelor thesis studying the impact of climate change on malnutrition in Ethiopia, being involved at the same time in a social project that aims to enhance local development through skateboarding called Skate Like Lion, in Konso, Southern Ethiopia. In 2020, he studied the MSc of Human Ecology in the Free University of Brussels (VUB), developing a master thesis that studied the socio-ecological system and perceptions of some Sahelian rural communities in The Gambia, exposed to a tremendous mangrove dieback. Diego is as well highly motivated in environmental education and citizen science, founding the project ‘Saxum’, with the objective of connecting children and adolescents through science, art and skateboarding to urban and marine ecosystems, promoting local ecological knowledge of his hometown, Gijón, Asturias.