Dr. Ignasi Torrent is an associate lecturer at the Department of International Relations at Anglia Ruskin University (Cambridge). His teaching experience includes courses such as International Relations, International Institutions and Policy, International Relations Theory, Global Governance, United Nations: Peace and Security, Post-War Reconstruction, Development and Peacebuilding, International Security and Conflict, among others. His previous academic engagements include research and teaching fellowships at Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona), University of Sierra Leone, the City University of New York and University of Westminster (London). His research interests are framed in the area of Critical Peace and Conflict Studies, the Anthropocene and new materialisms.