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Personal profile
Overview
PhD candidate at HCRI (2023-2025) under the supervision of Dr. Nathaniel O'Grady and Dr. Aurora Fredriksen (HCRI-GEOG SEED). I am an anthropologist raised in the Andes Cordillera. My PhD project combines environmental humanities and geographies of affect to explore more-than-human approaches in disaster research and volcanology. I study ethnographically the affective encounters with active volcanism across the Andes, through people's understandings. My doctoral research focuses on Lonquimay, Calbuco and Antuco volcanoes (Chile).
See more about my PhD project at: Volcanic Affects
Other research
In addition, I investigate a) human-plant ecologies through sensory ethnography with coastal gatherer communities in the context of global change; and b) human-fossil relationships and their biocultural contexts.
Co-researcher in FONDECYT Regular project N° 1221641 "Enabling factors for interscientific dialogue in coastal areas facing climate change. Case study in Arauco Province, Chile" (PI: Dr Noelia Carrasco, 2022-2025).
Co-researcher in project "From the strata to the community: values of fossils of the San Pedro river valley and Lake Riñihue (N° 37363-2020)", funded by the National Cultural Heritage Service of Chile. (PI: Dr Ana M. Abarzúa, 2020-2023)
Research interests
- Affect and disaster studies
- Risk perception and intercultural risk communication
- Local knowledge and disaster memory
- Emotional geographies
- Human-volcano relationships
- Human-plant relationships
- Interspecies relationships
- Sensory ethnography
Further information
Peer reviewer for:
- 2025 - Natural Hazards (1)
- 2025 - IJDRR International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (4)
- 2025 - NHESS Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (2)
- 2025 - Revista de Geografía Norte Grande (1)
- 2024 - Antropologías del Sur (1)
- 2024 - Estudios Atacameños (1)
- 2023 - REDER Revista de Estudios Latinoamericanos sobre RRD (1)
- 2021 - Antípoda Revista de Antropología y Arqueología (1)
- 2018 - Diálogo Andino (1)
Teaching
- Integrated Earth and Environmental Science field course (2024/25)
Memberships of committees and professional bodies
- Society and Environment Research Group - SEED UOM
- Society for the Study of Affect
- Geological Society of Chile
- Chilean College of Anthropologists
- Ibero-American Network for Research in Imaginaries and Representations
- Latin American Association of Volcanology
- European International Studies Association
- Chilean Society of Socioecology and Ethnoecology
- International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth’s Interior
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education/Academic qualification
Master of Social Science, Universidad de Los Lagos
Award Date: 20 Apr 2022
Sociocultural Anthropology, Universidad de Concepcion
Award Date: 29 Mar 2017
Areas of expertise
- H Social Sciences (General)
- Cultural Anthropology
- Qualitative Research Methods
- Ethnography
- Affect
- GN Anthropology
- Ethnography
- Disaster Risk Reduction
- Volcanic risk
- Environmental humanities
- Social imaginaries
- Rural studies
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Magma Recharge and Reheating Driving the 2021-2023 Tephra Emissions of Villarrica Volcano, Southern Andes
Romero, J. E., Cáceres, F., Guevara, A., Vergara-Pinto, F., Boschetty, F., Burton, M., Polacci, M., Morgado, E., Contreras, C., Vera, F., Aqueveque, O., Quilodrán, Á. & Amigo, Á., 7 May 2025, In: Bulletin of Volcanology. 87, 6, 18 p., 40.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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How residents and volcanoes co-produce risk knowledge: Ways of knowing and affective attunement to the rhythms of Lonquimay volcano, Chile
Vergara-Pinto, F., O'grady, N., Fredriksen, A., Romero, J. E., Marchant, C., Walshe, R., Donovan, A., Morin, J. & Szlam, M., 30 Aug 2024, In: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research. 108180.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Living in-between: Implications of local risk perceptions for the management of future eruptions at the Calbuco and Osorno volcanoes (Ensenada, Chile)
Alegría, C. & Vergara Pinto, F., Jan 2024, In: Andean Geology. 51, 1, p. 63-85Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Stratigraphy of volcanic memory: Layers of tephra, coping experiences and affects around volcanism
Vergara Pinto, F., 13 Feb 2024, Cities on Volcanoes 12 . Antigua Guatemala: Cities on Volcanoes - IAVCEI, p. 1 1 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
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The Andean Southern Volcanic Zone: a review on the legacy of the latest volcanic eruptions
Romero, J. E., Vergara Pinto, F., Forte, P., Ovalle, J. T. & Sánchez, F., 31 May 2024, In: Andean Geology. 51, 2, p. 379-412 32 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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