Rocío de Torre Ceijas was a project manager of the ERC project RESILIENT RULES. She received her Ph.D. in Ecology from the University of Alcalá (Spain) in 2014. She is an ecological scientist with a background in restoration ecology, connectivity and conservation in anthropic environments, analyzing ecological patterns over time and space. She has taken part in more than 10 national and international research projects and in the public and private sector in national and international agencies. Prior to working at the University of Zaragoza, she worked as a researcher at the Complutense University of Madrid (2013), as a research assistant and tutor at the Otago University of Dunedin, New Zealand (2014-2015), as an environmental research consultant (2015-2019), developing reports and projects for e. Zaragoza City Council, Ministry of Biodiversity of Spain, Heidelberg Cement Company, CSIC (Centro Superior de Investigaciones Científicas) and as a visiting professor at the Universidad a distancia de Madrid (UDIMA) (2023). Throughout her career, she has applied innovative and active methodologies for teaching science in secondary schools and graduate courses and been involved in many organizational tasks.
