Maria Christina Fragkou is an environmental scientist, currently working as an Assistant Professor at the Geography Department at the University of Chile. She has a PhD in Environmental Sciences from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and a Master's degree in Environmental Technology from Imperial College, London. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry (Aristotle University of Thessalonica, Greece).
Her research uses socio-economic metabolism for the study of sustainability and natural resources management, mostly focused, but not limited to, the urban context. She is interested in issues of urban sustainability, water management, energy policies, environmental justice, and the use of societal metabolism in political ecology studies. She is currently coordinating a research project on climate change adaptation strategies of high-altitude Andean communities and another on the water metabolic analysis of a Chilean university campus.