Ivan Ojeda-Pereira

Iván Ojeda Pereira is a Doctoral Researcher in Social Sciences at LUT University, Finland, and at the Institute of Sociology, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, where he is completing a double PhD degree. He holds a BA in Sociology (with highest distinction) and an MA in Political Science (with highest distinction) from the University of Chile, and an MA in Sociology (with highest distinction) from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. His research lies at the intersection of Science and Technology Studies (STS), Environmental Sociology, and Political Ecology, focusing on the socio-technical transformations of extractive and energy systems in Latin America.

His doctoral project, “Just Socio-Ecological Transition in Chile: Trajectories, Frictions, and Futures”, explores how the idea of a just transition is assembled, institutionalised, and contested within Chile’s energy and climate policy landscape. He currently collaborates actively in Chilean research projects, including the ANID ANILLOS project “Sociotechnologies of Lithium” and the FONDECYT project “Energy Transition and Critical Minerals: Tensions over Divergent Socio-Ecological Futures.”

His academic work has been published in international journals such as Resources Policy, Journal of Labor and Society, Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy Review, The Extractive Industries and Society, Visual Ethnography, Urban Research & Practice, Journal of Maps, Digital Geography and Society, and Futures, as well as in Spanish-language journals including POLIS, Cuadernos de Teoría Social, PLANEO, and Intervención, among others.