Curriculum

Ricardo García Mira, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Social and Environmental Psychology at the Department of Psychology of the University of A Coruña, Spain, where he teaches Social Psychology at the Faculty of Educational Sciences, and contributes to an Environmental Psychology module at PhD's level. He currently leads the People-Environment Research Unit in this University, and he is also a Visiting Reader at the University of Surrey (United Kingdom), during 2003-2006. He was a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Geography in Texas State University, USA (2001), the Department of Psychology in the University of Tallinn, Estonia (2002) and the Institute of Psychology in the West University of Timisoara, Romania (2004).
He is a member of the editorial advisory board of the Journal of Environmental Psychology and 'InsCight' and was adviser of the Committee for Research and Technological Development of the Government of Galicia, Spain. He also was the organizer of a number of national and international scientific events. He was recently the President of the 17th Conference of the International Association for People-Environment Studies, which was held in A Coruña, Spain, in July 2002, and allowed the meeting of more than 400 scientists from all over the world. He was elected for being a member of the IAPS Board during 2004-2008. Currently he is the editor of the IAPS Bulletin of People-Environment Studies.