Function and Responsibilities:

I enjoy exploring and combining different methodologies to answer questions related to the monitoring, ecology and conservation of forests in the tropics. I currently lead research collaborations related to the improvement of NGHGI-related estimations of aboveground biomass stocks and sinks in forests, with the ultimate goal of generating methods ad products that are policy-relevant and adaptable for different purposes. I'm interested in the integration of National Forest Inventories (NFIs) and remote sensing data and products, particularly to improve our understanding of forest disturbance and recovery processes, as well as the spatial distribution of forest carbon stocks. 

Together with Martin Herold we coordinate the GFOI R&D Component, which aims to transfer emerging forest monitoring methods and data sources into established national forest monitoring systems in the context of the Global Forest Observations Initiative. 

Research Interests:

• Aboveground biomass stocks and sinks in tropical dry and moist forests
• Forest disturbance and recovery
• Tree-level biomass estimation, tree diversity analysis
• NGHGIs - AFOLU component

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Career:

2023-present    Postdoctoral researcher in the Global Land Monitoring Group at the GFZ Helmholtz Center for Geosciences, Germany

2021-2023        Postdoctoral Resesarcher in the Laboratory of Geo-Information Science and Remote Sensing at Wageningen University and Research, Netherlands

2017-2021        PhD Candidate in the Laboratory of Geo-Information Science and Remote Sensing at Wageningen University and Research and Center for International Forestry Researchand World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF), Netherlands

2016-2017        Research Assistant in the Environmental Change Institute's Ecosystems Lab, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

2014-2015        Research Assistant in Consultores Asociados en Naturaleza y Desarrollo, Peru

Education:

• PhD in tropical forest monitoring (2021), Laboratory of Geo-Information Science and Remote Sensing, Wageningen University. 
  • Dissertation: "Aboveground carbon stocks and sinks in recovering tropical forests"
• MSc in Biodiversity, Conservation and Management (2016), Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford
• BSc in Forestry (2014), Faculty of Forest Sciences, Universidad Nacional Agraria la Molina

Projects:

- Coordination of the GFOI R&D Component (2023-2026), role: WP leader

- EO4SD - Forest Management (2021-2023), role: WP leader

- Global Comparative Study on REDD+ (2017-2021), role: PhD Scholar