Viviana Osorno Acosta Viviana Osorno
About me
Biologist from Universidad de los Andes, Master’s degree in Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biodiversity from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, PhD in Bioethics and Specialist in University Teaching from Universidad El Bosque. She currently serves as a professor-researcher and leader of the Water, Health and Environment Research Group in the Faculty of Engineering at Universidad El Bosque, and as a professor of Bioethics and Environment in the Department of Bioethics at the same institution.
She has conducted research in the environmental field, particularly in the use of bioindicators of contamination and in the promotion of sustainable lifestyles, addressing socio-ecological systems from an interdisciplinary perspective. Her professional trajectory integrates the life sciences with bioethical and aesthetic reflection on contemporary transformations of biodiversity and the environment, critically exploring the tensions between technoscience, sustainability, and lived experience.
Viviana Osorno Acosta is a Biologist from Universidad de los Andes, Specialist in University Teaching and PhD in Bioethics from Universidad El Bosque, and holds a Master’s degree in Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biodiversity from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. She received a Summa Cum Laude distinction for her doctoral dissertation, which examined value conflicts between urban development and ecosystem conservation in the Thomas Van der Hammen Forest Reserve.
She currently serves as a professor-researcher in the Faculty of Engineering at Universidad El Bosque and leads the Water, Health and Environment Research Group (ASA), where she integrates academic training, interdisciplinary research, and undergraduate and graduate thesis supervision. Her work focuses on urban–rural socio-ecological systems, environmental conflicts, environmental bioethics, the use of bioindicators of contamination, ecosystem services, and the promotion of sustainable lifestyles.
She is the author of several peer-reviewed academic articles and book chapters that bring together ecology, bioethics, environmental education, and aesthetic reflection. Her academic career has been recognized with multiple excellence awards, as well as distinctions for outstanding teaching performance. Her approach integrates the life sciences with critical reflection on contemporary transformations of biodiversity, exploring the tensions between technoscience, sustainability, and human experience within territories.