Carles Castell

• @elCarles

Carles Castell is an environmentalist. He holds a PhD in Biology, a Master’s Degree in Environmental Management in the Rural World and a Master’s Degree in Leadership from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). For 10 years, he was a researcher at the Catalan Center for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF), where he now collaborates in communication issues. He has been working with Barcelona Provincial Council to conserve natural spaces for 25 years, planning, managing, monitoring and carrying out analyses of the natural heritage. Currently, he is responsible for monitoring environmental actions and programmes within the Climate Action Area. He taught ecology as a professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) and the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) and collaborates in several postgraduate programmes. In 2019 he curated the “Som Natura” exhibition at the Barcelona Museum of Natural Sciences.