Maddalena Ripa holds a PhD in “Environment, Resources and Sustainable Development” from Parthenope University of Naples (Italy). She has more than ten years international experience in academia. Currently she is researcher at Business Department, Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain) where she is co-leading an H2020 project named JUST2CE (JUst Transition TO the Circular Economy) whose aim is to explore the economic, environmental, justice, gender and policy implications of CE paradigm in the Global South. By mixing quantitative and qualitative research methods, she researches the epistemological relativism in socio-ecological transitions and its imbrications with society and natural environment. A full list of publications is available at: SCOPUS or ORCID.