Vaclav Masek Sánchez is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Ecology at the Institute for Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA-UAB), Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, where his dissertation examines alliance-building for ecosocial transformation across Latin America as a member of the REAL Project research team, working under the supervision of Giorgos Kallis and Diego Andreucci.

He holds an M.A. in Sociology from the University of Southern California and an M.A. in Latin American and Caribbean Studies from New York University, with a triple-major B.A. in Sociology, Spanish, and Global Liberal Studies from New York University.

His interdisciplinary research focuses on extractivism, Indigenous resistance movements, and post-conflict politics in Central America, employing multi-sited ethnographic methods and participatory research approaches. His scholarly work has been published in Radical Americas, International Journal for Crime, Justice, and Social Democracy, International Area Studies Review, and NACLA Report on the Americas, among others.

Masek Sánchez has presented his research at major international conferences, including LASA, the International Sociological Association World Congress, and conferences across Europe and the Americas. As a public intellectual, he contributes regularly to Spanish and English-language media outlets, including El País, CNN en Español, and El Faro. I have received fellowships from the Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation and the Center for Advanced Genocide Research at USC. He serves as Graduate Student Representative for LASA's Central America Section (2025-2027).