I am Cristian Moyano Fernández, philosopher and PhD in Environmental Science and Technology at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA) and Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB).
I am a Visiting Scholar at Rachel Carson Center at LMU in Munich. I previously worked at the Institute of Philosophy – CSIC in Madrid, under a Juan de la Cierva Postdoctoral Fellowship (2024-25) and at the UAB Philosophy Department under a Margarita Salas Postdoctoral Fellowship (2022-23).
In 2022 I published the first book on Ethics of Rewilding in Spanish with Plaza y Valdés publishers, and I have published Rewilding and Ecological Justice: The Ethics and Politics of Wildlife Regeneration with Routledge editors (2025).
I had the honor of being the main researcher and coordinator of ERA-CERES, an interdisciplinary competitive scientific project on Ethics of Rewilding in the Anthropocene (2022-2023).
Research track
I am currently focused on exploring human relationship with wildlife in the Anthropocene. One of my main motivations is to identify pathways for synergetic flourishing, where we minimize conflicts between the well-being, health, and development of the natural entities with which we share the biosphere. To this end, I dive into rewilding, environmental ethics, ecological justice and global health issues.
I have an interdisciplinary academic background in moral and political philosophy and environmental sciences.
Since I earned my PhD (“The Limits of Capabilities Equality: from Intensive Livestock to Rewilding”), my central thesis was focused on critically rethinking the capabilities approach in order to address some global challenges that are compromising the flourishing not only of human beings, but also of non-human beings and ecosystem processes.
After obtaining my PhD I promptly worked as a Margarita Salas Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Philosophy at UAB and then as a Juan de la Cierva Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy, CSIC. I have also conducted several research stays as a visiting lecturer and scholar in Iberoamerican and European countries. During my postdoctoral career, my research has primarily focused on the ethics of rewilding, ecological justice, global health approaches, the environmental costs of artificial intelligence, and the moral pitfalls posed by meat-based food systems.
Find out more about my research here.
Activism
Being much more than an academic person, you will find me involved in social movements for animal rights and environmental protection. I am currently the founder of the Sociedad Interdisciplinar de Ética del Rewilding (SIER), a Spanish non-profit organization dedicated to promoting interdisciplinary scientific studies and the ethical application of rewilding, fostering intercultural dialogue, knowledge exchange, and communicating its insights to society.
Previously, I was vice-president of Red de Transición (non-profit organisation), the Spanish hub of the international Transition Towns Movement. I have been an affiliate of ànimaL: som ànima animal, a local organisation committed to change our consideration and treatment towards non-human animals, and I had also been a member of the HealthCare Ethics Committee of the Josep Trueta Hospital in Girona.
Find out more about outreach here.
What moves me
In my daily life I enjoy the contact with other nature forms. I go trekking, walking or just admiring the non-human world.
I also play improvised piano with a predilection for minimalist compositions.
I enjoy practising several sports such as table tennis, which I started to professionally train many years ago.
I am a passionate reader and I discover new horizons when I write –not only academic papers.
My friends say that I am a great cook (I guess it is a gift inherited from my mother).
And in the past years I discovered a passion for capturing unique and wild moments with my camera.
I consider myself a calm, hard-working, organised, collaborative, pragmatic, energic, positive and genuine person.