Dr. Desiree Daniel Ortmann

Biography

Desiree Daniel-Ortmann is an interdisciplinary researcher specializing in the intersection of development geography, sustainability science, and digital technologies. Currently, she serves as a Departmental Tutor for Sustainable Urban Development and is a Supervisor for DPhil students in the same field at the Department of Continuing Education at the University of Oxford. Desiree has previously held positions as a Departmental Lecturer for a Master's program in Sustainable Urban Development at the same department and has worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Geography, University of Bern in Switzerland. Desiree earned her PhD in Geography from the University of Bonn, Germany in 2018, and holds a Master’s degree in Geoinformatics from the University of Muenster, Germany (2011) and a Bachelor’s degree in Geomatics from the University of the West Indies (2009). Her current research and teaching focus on four core thematic areas: operationalization of relational values in the context of Nature’s Contribution to People, documentality, land tenure, livelihood resilience, and the role of emerging technologies, particularly blockchain, in enabling resilience and driving transformative change within ontological frameworks.

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