Sofía holds a PhD in Biological Sciences from Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Argentina. She worked as an assistant researcher of the National Research Council (CONICET) at Instituto de Ecología Regional (UNT-CONICET, Yerba Buena, Tucumán), and her main areas of expertise are Conservation Biology, Land System Science and Human Dimensions of Wildlife. Sofia’s work is focused on understanding environmental and anthropic factors affecting biodiversity conservation and human-wildlife interactions in different social ecological systems of Latin America, with a focus on the Argentine Chaco. She is particularly interested in working jointly with stakeholders to develop strategies that foster coexistence between people and wildlife, through the co-design of conservation interventions that are aligned with people’s interests, needs and possibilities. Sofía was a member of the Scientific Steering Committee of the Global Land Programme, an interdisciplinary community of science and practice fostering the study of land systems and the co-design of solutions for global sustainability.