Pepa is a PhD candidate interested in the psychological and social dimensions of risk and climate change. Her research focuses on risk perception and communication and public understanding of climate change.

She has broad interest in understanding how the idea of climate change is individually and collectively constructed and how climate change messages out of scientific results are conveyed to raise behaviour change.  

Pepa has previously worked in the field of rural development exploring urban-rural migration movements and she has developed her career within an international setting.  She has a BSc in Sociology awarded by the University of Salamanca (Spain) and a joint International MSc in Rural Development, Wageningen University.