Virginia García-Acosta Mexican social anthropologist and historian. She has been a professor-researcher at CIESAS since 1973. Her areas of specialization are anthropology and the history of risk and disasters in Mexico and Latin America. Member of the Mexican Academy of History (AMH), where he occupies chair number 5 (2013), of the Mexican Academy of Sciences (1987) and of the National System of Researchers since 1987, with level 3 since 2004. He has published As an individual author or coordinator, more than a hundred articles or book chapters in Mexico and abroad, as well as 27 books. She will be the editor of Memorias de la AMH magazine in 2021 and 2022. In the last two years she has published the following books. -The Anthropology of Disasters in Latin America. State of the Art (Routledge, 2020). The Little Ice Age on both sides of the Atlantic. Extreme weather episodes, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and crises, coordinated with Armando Alberola (University of Alicante, 2021). Tlalollin. the Earth in movement Records of tremors in Mesoamerican codices, with Gerardo Suárez (Mexican Academy of History, 2021). History and memory of hurricanes and other hydrometeorological episodes in Mexico. Five centuries, with Raymundo Padilla Lozoya (CIESAS, U Veracruzana and U Colima, 2021) she was General Director of CIESAS from 2004 to 2014 and its Academic Director from 1997 to 2000.