Cynthia comes from Mexico and has worked on various topics around sustainability, such as sustainable food systems, waste flow analysis, and agri-food and consumer-goods sector compliance, among others. She also worked as a research assistant at the FABLE Consortium from the Food and Land Use Coalition.

Not knowing that Industrial Ecology was a scientific discipline but confident that nature is the central piece, she co-founded a small think tank focused on industrial ecology applied in Mexico. She did her Bachelor’s in Industrial Engineering (2012) at the National Polytechnic Institute. Additionally, she has a master’s degree in Industrial Ecology (2019) from Leiden University and the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. In her master’s thesis, she conducted qualitative research focused on energy poverty and ecotechnologies in Mexico.