Julia Martinez Julia Martínez Fernandez. Doctor in Biology, she is executive director of the New Water Culture Foundation, where she coordinates the scientific-technical activity of the entity. She has participated in around 30 national and international research projects, with strong emphasis on inter and transdisciplinary approaches, focusing on modelling socio-ecological systems and their water dynamics, particularly in arid systems, the development of water sustainability indicators, the environmental and socio-economic interactions of water management, the effects of climate change on Mediterranean biodiversity and the ecology of water-related systems, particularly wetlands and coastal lagoons and their watersheds. She is author or co-author of around 150 scientific publications on these issues. She was one of the 100 European water experts signing in 2009 the European Declaration for a New Water Culture. She teaches at the Master in Sustainable Water Management of the University of Zaragoza and the New Water Culture Foundation.