Flavia Manieri
WildHub Community Advocates Coordinator|Interdisciplinary Researcher, Uppsala University
Since July 2025, I have been serving as the Community Advocates Coordinator at WildHub, where I coordinate initiatives to engage, support, and empower our community advocates in advancing WH’s mission.
Beyond WildHub, I wear a few different hats. I work as a researcher and lecturer in Sweden, teaching courses on environmental law, political and historical ecology, and disaster risk management. I also mentor undergraduate and postgraduate students, collaborate with faculty members, and contribute to ongoing research projects.
I’m passionate about giving back through volunteer work. I support a few conservation and animal welfare organisations with research and advocacy to help drive positive change. When I’m not working, you’ll find me hiking forest trails with my dog or enjoying a good cup of coffee.
Geospatial professional and PhD researcher with a passion for transforming spatial data into actionable insights for storytelling. Specialising in satellite remote sensing, I practice advanced techniques such as change detection and land cover classification and mapping. Currently I am pursuing a part-time PhD around my full-time role as a GIS Analyst, my research focuses on analysing deforestation and it's impact within the Brazilian Amazon rainforest, specifically within indigenous territories.
Beyond my work as a GIS professional, I am passionate about creating space for people to build a connection with nature. I have established an outdoor community known as The Adventurous Book Club, which aims to spark people's imaginations whilst exploring the outdoors, within this community we also promote environmental awareness and positive wellbeing.
I am always eager to collaborate with like-minded professionals and organisations to advance the use of GIS and remote sensing in environmental conservation. Let's connect and explore how we can work together to make positive impact.
My background is mainly in species conservation, education and capacity exchange. I researched mother-young interactions in gorillas and chimpanzees, in captivity and the wild. After that, I worked for three years in Indonesia, where I developed and implemented youth ambassador and community engagement programmes on local and regional scales. I co-founded WildHub, a community of nature conservation professionals, in 2020 and work as their Community Lead. I am furthermore on the Advisory Board of the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE) at the University of Kent where I obtained my PhD on capacity development for conservation in 2022.