Angel Paniagua Mazorra is a OPIS Research Scientist Institute for Policies and Public Goods Department of Economics and Politics. She received Undergraduate degree (1986) and PhD (1990) in Human Geography at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Is the first Spanish researcher with publications in Land Use Policy or Journal of Rural Studies. Referee of more than 40 journals around the world.

Scientific editor (in association), in the year 1999 of special issue on Environmental Policies and Sustainability (Revista Internacional de Sociologia); in the year 2006  (in association) of the special issue on Public policies, Sustainability and Rural Geography of the journal Boletín de la Asociación de Geógrafos Españoles; and editor in the years 2007-08 of the special issue on Qualification of Space of the journal Arbor edited by CSIC. Author or coauthor of more 150  papers and book chapters. Member of editorial board of some relevant journals (ISI, SCOPUS) in sociology and environmental studies. It is currently Member of Editorial Advisory Group. Environmental Studies book series. Cambridge Schol. Publs., book quality proposals are welcome. Between 2015 and 2017 he was the first representative of the CSIC -Spanish Council for Scientific Research-  in the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture.