TODO ES: About Dialectik

TODO ES: We are not a technology company. We are a research practice.

TODO ES: Dialectik was founded on the conviction that research about Latin America must be led by Latin Americans — and that rigorous climate science is incomplete without the communities whose lives are shaped by its findings.

TODO ES: Our founding partnership brings together two complementary disciplines: Dr. Jose Daniel Teodoro's work on social network analysis and the SNPI methodology, and Dr. Vitali Diaz's expertise in geospatial data science at TU Delft. From this pairing, a single proposition: that social and environmental vulnerability must be measured with equal rigor, and that the evidence must come from the region itself.

TODO ES: We are based in the Netherlands. Our research network extends across Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Mexico. We produce rigorous, actionable intelligence to support sustainable and socially just business development between Latin America and Europe — research-backed advisory for institutional partners, funders, and coffee sector organizations that take climate resilience seriously.

TODO ES: The team

TODO ES: Two researchers, one transdisciplinary practice

TODO ES: Dr. Jose Daniel Teodoro

TODO ES: Founder · Lead Researcher · Social Network Performance Indicators (SNPI)

TODO ES: Dr. Teodoro is the founder of Dialectik and the creator of the Social Network Performance Indicators (SNPI) framework — a systematic approach to quantifying the quality of stakeholder collaboration in environmental governance. His work has been published in Environmental Science and Policy (Elsevier) in both 2024 and 2026, and has been applied to fieldwork in El Salvador, Brazil, and Canada.

TODO ES: Daniel's academic foundation is in transdisciplinary research — the integration of academic methods with local knowledge, participatory data gathering, and stakeholder encounters. He has mapped more than thirty-nine stakeholder organizations across five categories in the Salvadoran coffee sector alone, co-designing a research agenda for climate adaptation with farmers, government officials, NGOs, and export actors. At Dialectik, Daniel leads the social science methodology and the country-level case study design.

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TODO ES: Dr. Vitali DiazTODO ES: TU Delft

TODO ES: Co-founder · Geospatial Data Scientist

TODO ES: Dr. Diaz is Dialectik's environmental science counterpart — a Geospatial Data Scientist at TU Delft, Europe's premier technical university, and an expert in remote sensing, LiDAR observation, hydrological modeling, and drought and flood risk assessment. His work draws on satellite imagery, climate models, and large-scale environmental datasets to quantify physical vulnerability across landscapes.

TODO ES: Vitali's institutional position at TU Delft gives Dialectik access to established European research infrastructure and European funding channels. In the Dialectik partnership, he leads the environmental data pipeline — the satellite, LiDAR, and climate model components of the dual-stream methodology — and works jointly with Daniel to integrate those environmental findings with the social network layer.

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TODO ES: Bridget McGlynnTODO ES: QUT

TODO ES: Sustainability Scientist · PhD Candidate

TODO ES: Bridget is an interdisciplinary sustainability scientist focused on collaborative governance, water resources, and network analysis. Her research investigates how patterns of collaboration among decision-making actors reflect the spatial and logistical complexity of the environmental problems they address, drawing on social-ecological resilience thinking and a systems perspective.

TODO ES: She is a PhD candidate at Queensland University of Technology and a Centre for Global Studies Graduate Student fellow, and a co-author with Daniel Teodoro on the Social Network Performance Indicators (SNPI) framework. Bridget has been extensively involved in the WWF Canada – Brock Partnership for Freshwater Resilience, co-creating knowledge at the interface of research and practice.

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TODO ES: Rick VinkTODO ES: Metriek

TODO ES: Data Scientist

TODO ES: Rick is a data scientist with 8+ years of experience building end-to-end analytical and machine learning systems. His work spans recommender systems, time-series forecasting, statistical modeling, and applied NLP — translating messy, real-world data into evidence that supports decision-making.

TODO ES: At Dialectik he contributes to the data science layer of the dual-stream methodology, helping turn social network and environmental datasets into reproducible, auditable analyses. He holds an MSc in Applied Physics from TU Delft and is the founder of AI-Codex.

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TODO ES: What we stand for

TODO ES: Three commitments

TODO ES: Latin American leadership

TODO ES: We insist that research about Latin America must be led by Latin Americans. Our team, our networks, and our partnerships are rooted in the region. Regional researchers investing in their region's future.

TODO ES: Methodological rigor

TODO ES: Our work is grounded in peer-reviewed science. We publish, we submit to scrutiny, and we build on what survives review. No unsupported claims. No promises we cannot deliver.

TODO ES: Social-ecological integration

TODO ES: We reject the separation of environmental data from social context. Climate adaptation without community engagement is incomplete. Social and environmental dimensions deserve equal rigor.

TODO ES: Institutional context

TODO ES: Where we sit in the landscape

TODO ES: TU DelftTODO ES: Institutional affiliationTODO ES: Environmental Science & PolicyTODO ES: Peer-reviewed publications · ElsevierTODO ES: NetherlandsTODO ES: Registered base of operationsTODO ES: LAC RegionTODO ES: 5 country focus · research network

TODO ES: Interested in collaborating?

TODO ES: We welcome conversations with institutional partners, coffee sector organizations, and fellow researchers working on climate adaptation in Latin America.

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