Eliseu Carbonell (Barcelona, 1969) holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Barcelona (2003) and has been a professor at the University of Girona since the 2009–2010 academic year. He completed postdoctoral stays at the universities of Oxford and Montreal and has been a visiting researcher at the universities of Amsterdam and Laval, in Quebec. He was a researcher at the Catalan Institute for Cultural Heritage Research from 2008 to 2017. He has taught courses and seminars at various universities in Spain, France, Mexico, Chile, and Ethiopia. He is a member of the Iberian Network of Environmental Anthropology and a member of the Catalan Council for Ethnology. His research mainly focuses on the anthropology of time. His doctoral thesis analyzed the experience of time in rural Empordà through an anthropological analysis of the work of the writer Josep Pla. He has since applied the perspective of the anthropology of time to diverse topics such as the study of suicide, maritime heritage, and, more recently, the relationship between humans and tortoises in the Albera Massif. He is a member of the Research Group on Educational and Socio-Cultural Policies, Programs, and Services. He is currently the Principal Investigator of the coordinated R&D project: “Local knowledge and practices for the sustainability of Andalusian and Catalan cork oak forests in the face of climate change” (PID2024-157413NB-C22). All publications at: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Eliseu-Carbonell