Aisha So
Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University
a.m.so@uu.nl

Hero, who cared about the forest and wanted to transform it

Aisha So

Graphic short story winner

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Author biography

Aisha So is a second-year PhD candidate at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University. Before starting her PhD, she obtained a double masters degree in Environmental Science and Plant Biotechnology from Wageningen University. During her master’s degree, she investigated the roles and responsibilities of plant scientists in the governance of genome-edited crops (So et al., 2024). Her research interests include plant science, agricultural resilience, knowledge co-production, transdisciplinarity, and transformative change. Aisha made the first version of her illustrated story for the PhD course Transformative Research for Sustainability Challenges.