Attending the 9th congress of the International Network of Research Management Societies (INORMS) and taking part in the study tour organised by the European Association of Research Managers and Administrators (EARMA) reinforces CREAF’s new approach to the research management.
The topics included pollinators, green infrastructures in urban spaces and the key role of soil, also the services provided by forests and how to monitor them using geospatial tools, among others.
CREAF postdoctoral researcher Luciana Jaime’s scientific visit to BOKU (Austria) has been a burst of ideas, which has strengthened her vocation in research. Apart from widening her field of knowledge.
William Anderegg has been distinguished for his work on how trees absorb and release carbon dioxide in a context of climate change.
The study and action on the ground by CREAF researcher Annelies Broekman are the preamble of a long specialized dedication in water management policies, which happens to accompany activism from a scientific perspective. Photo: Laura Fraile.
Connecting even more European bird monitoring and research with decision making is one of the wishes of researcher Sergi Herrando, especially linked to the management and conservation of biodiversity.
The North American scientist William Anderegg -currently a visiting researcher for a year at CREAF as part of the Visitors & Sabbaticals programme- has received the prestigious Alan T Waterman Award 2023 from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Opportunity is one of the words that constantly pepper the discourse of CREAF researcher Oriol Lapiedra and listening to him, one wonders whether he is a passionate person who is caught out by opportunities while working.
Attracting scientific talent and promoting it, as well as implementing actions to make CREAF a more inclusive and diverse centre, is a challenge. This is the task that Teresa Rosas, Talent and gender officer at CREAF for the last two years, has taken during a couple of years.
The urgency of a new socio-economic approach, the self-demand to study climate change, science as a public service and the commitment to propose alternatives are on the table around which researchers Olga Margalef and Jordi Solé Ollé talk.
