Deïna Lillo Aguirre is a doctoral researcher and lecturer at the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB), recipient of an FPU-CAIB 2025 scholarship awarded through the project "Cinema and Environment 2". Her doctoral thesis focuses on the comparative analysis of Studio Ghibli and anglophone animated films, with particular attention to how these engage with Western and other-than-Western post-anthropocentric philosophies. Lillo holds a degree in English Studies and a Master’s Degree in Teacher Training from the UIB, as well as a Technician Degree in Image and Sound. Drawing on feminist, cultural, film and posthumanist studies, her thesis intends to offer an interdisciplinary approach and theorization of "ways of seeing beyond the Anthropocene".