Dr. Chaya Vaddhanaphuti is a Lecturer in Geography at the Department of Geography, Faculty of Social Sciences, Chiang Mai University. Chaya is a human geographer/environmental geographer interested in socioenvironmental issues from perspectives of political ecology, more-than-human geographies, the Anthropocene, and Science and Technology Studies (STS). 

His research interests include cultures of weather, climate justice, and indigenous resource governance in Northern Thailand. Chaya’s recent research involves 1) pyro-aeropolitics of forest fire-haze pollution governance in northern Thailand, 2) indigenous environmental guardians under pressure of unjust climate mitigation and adaptation, and 3) creative games and communication tools for transdisciplinary forest co-management.