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 Professor (Assistant) in History and Economic Institutions at the University of A Coruña. She was 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- Interuniversity Research Centre for Atlantic Cultural Landscapes in the History and Agroecology line (2025). 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 for understanding the contemporary period. Among others, she investigates the production and reproduction dynamics of food systems and through food systems in capitalism, as well as the evolution of such relations over time. Her research is inherently interdisciplinary, drawing on Rural History, Ecological, Political, and Feminist Economics, and Agroecology.

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. She co-authored, together with Professor Emerita Harriet Friedmann from the University of Toronto, the Entry n. 62 –‘Food Regimes’– for the Elgar Encyclopaedia of Food and Society [Hollow, L. et al. (eds.), 2025], and she is the author of a chapter of the book Dynamics of the European Food System: A Multidisciplinary Approach [Aboim, L. et al. (eds.), forthcoming]. Her work has also been presented at various international conferences, including the International Degrowth Conference & Conference of the European Society for Ecological Econonmics, the conference of the International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy (IIPPE), the Rural History Conference of the European Society of Rural History (EURHO), and the Conference of Rural History of the Sociedad de Estudios de Historia Agraria (SEHA).

She is a member of the editorial board of the journal Historia Agraria(Q1), and a regular interviewer on its podcast Tiempos Agrarios, and a coordinator of the Agrarian Change Working Group articulated to the IIPPE and the Journal of Agrarian Change.