Mouna Chambon has a dual education in tropical ecology and social sciences. She is committed to reconciling biodiversity conservation and community development. Her areas of interest include climate change, gender equity and conservation and sustainable use of marine and coastal biodiversity. From 2017 to 2018, she was awarded Laureate of the Mentorship Programme Women4Climate for her work as a project manager on gender and climate change for the youth-led NGO CliMates. She has also worked in the marine environment protection field and has significant field experiences in Sub-Saharan Africa and Madagascar. Mouna started a PhD project on the Gender and small-scale fisheries in a climate change context: a case study from coastal Kenya funded by the ICTA-UAB ´Maria de Maetzu´ unit of excellence and in collaboration with LICCI project. This doctoral project is at the interface between natural and social sciences and will explore the gendered patterns in local perceptions of climate change impacts and the state of scientific knowledge related to these impacts. The focus is on small scale fisheries.