ORCID: 0000-0001-9202-308X

Noelia Parajuá Carpintero (Castroverde, 1992) holds a PhD in Economic History (cum laude and International Mention, 2023) from the University of Barcelona in the line agrarian and environmental history. She also holds a Master's Degree in Internationalization: Economic, Business, and Legal-Political Aspects (Extraordinary Master's Degree Award, 2017) from the University of Barcelona.

She is currently a Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral researcher (Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities, Spain) in the Department of History at the University of Santiago de Compostela and member of CISPAC in the History and Agroecology line. She was awarded an FI scholarship from the AGAUR/Generalitat de Cataluña in order to conduct her PhD (2019-2022).

Her main line of research is the interaction between society and ecology, using the food system as an entry point, and the dynamics behind its transformation in the past and for the future.

She was a visiting researcher in the Rural Sociology group at Wageningen University, Netherlands (2022). She has participated in several national projects since her PhD and also took part in the European project Next-Generation AGROSCALING, aimed at promoting the agroecological transition in Europe, as a postdoctoral researcher (2024).

Her work has been published in scientific journals such as Ecological Economics, Historia Agraria, and the Revista de Economía Crítica, as well as in outreach magazines like the Dosieres Ecosociales of FUHEM and the Dossiers Tècnics of the Department of Climate Action, Food, and Rural Agenda (DACC) of the Generalitat de Catalunya. Her work has also been presented at various international conferences, including the EURHO Rural History Conference, the International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy (IIPPE) conference, and the International Degrowth Conference. She is a member of the editorial board of the journal Historia Agraria and a regular interviewer on its podcast Tiempos Agrarios.