Michelle Bonatti is the Deputy Head of the Department of “Sustainable Land Use in Developing Countries” at the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) and lecturer on “Environmental Sociology and Environmental Policy” at Humboldt University of Berlin (Germany). She is an Agronomy Engineer by the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil with a Master in Rural Development from Buenos Aires University, Argentina, and a Ph.D. from the Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany. Since 2007, she has worked on several research projects in Latin America and Africa and has received three prizes for her academic performance. Her research focuses on the co-design of innovations and social learning methods for sustainable land use.