Doctoral Candidate Marian Orjuela

Marian Orjuela is a doctoral researcher in sociology at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, and a member of the interdisciplinary Heidelberg Center for Ibero-American Studies (HCIAS) research group “Communication and Society in Ibero-America”. She also collaborates with the HCIAS coordinating the area of Publications and Knowledge Transfer. Marian holds a master’s degree in sociology focused on economic and organizational sociology from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil, and a bachelor’s degree in communication studies from the Universidad del Norte, Colombia. She has additional training in human rights, science communication and health from the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the Latin American and Caribbean Centre for Health Sciences Information (BIREME), and the World Health Organization (WHO).

Marian is a member of the EU-LAC Women's International Network (EU-LAC Foundation), the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), as well as a research associate and editor of Research Committee 48 (RC48) "Social Movements, Collective Action and Social Change" at the International Sociological Association (ISA).