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About us
Our project brings together partners from every vegetated continent. We learn from each other and drive forward the science as we push the boundaries of understanding the where’s, when’s and why’s of wildfire.
Core Team
Dr. Matthew Jones
Senior Research Fellow
University of East Anglia
Dr. Francesca di Giuseppe
Team Leader
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasting
Dr. Chantelle Burton
Senior Climate Scientist
Met Office Hadley Centre
Dr. Douglas Kelley
Land Surface Modeller
UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
Regional Expert
Lucy Amissah
Principal Research Scientist
CSIR-Forestry Research Institute of Ghana
Sally Archibald
Professor
University of Witwatersrand Johannesburg
Kebonye Dintwe
Associate Professor
University of Botswana
Aya Brigitte N'Dri
Associate Professor
Nangui Abrogoua University
Natasha S. Ribeiro
Professor of Environmental Impact Assessment and Restoration Ecology
Eduardo Mondlane University
Tercia Strydom
Senior Manager: Systems Ecology
South African National Parks
Cong Gao
PhD Candidate
University of Hong Kong
Elena А. Kukavskaya
Leading Researcher
V.N. Sukachev Institute of Forest Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences - separate subdivision of the FRC KSC SB RAS
Bambang H. Saharjo
Professor of the Environment and Forest Fires
Bogor Agricultural University
Veerachai Tanpipat
Remote Sensing Engineer and Geographer
Kasetsart University
Bo Zheng
Associate Professor
Tsinghua University
Davide Ascoli
Professor of Integrated Fire Management
University of Torino
Stefan H. Doerr
Professor of Wildland Fire Science
Swansea University
Nikola Nikolov
Full Professor
Ss. Ciril and Methodius University
Julien Ruffault
Researcher
Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'alimentation et l'Environnement (INRAE)
Cristina Santín
Tenured Scientist
Research Institute of Biodiversity (IMIB), CSIC-University of Oviedo-Principality of Asturias
Johan Sjöström
Senior research scientist
RISE Research institutes of Sweden
Gavriil Xanthopoulos
Research Director (ret.)
Hellenic Agricultural Organization (DIMITRA)
Mathieu Bourbonnais
Assistant Professor
University of British Columbia - Okanagan
Victoria M. Donovan
Assistant Professor of Forest Management
University of Florida
Chelene C. Hanes
Research Scientist
Natural Resources Canada
Piyush Jain
Research Scientist
Natural Resources Canada
Jacquelyn K. Shuman
FireSense Project Scientist
NASA Ames Research Center
Sarah Harris
Manager Research and Development at Country Fire Authority
Country Fire Authority
Dolors Armenteras
Professor in Landscape Ecology applied to Conservation Biology
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Bibiana A. Bilbao
Professor at Dpto. de Estudios Ambientales
Universidad Simón Bolívar
Francisco de la Barrera
Professor
Universidad de Concepción
Carlos Di Bella
Professor at the Faculty of Agronomy / University of Buenos Aires-Argentina
University of Buenos Aires
Mauro E. Gonzalez
Professor
Universidad Austral de Chile
Galia Selaya
Research scientist
ECOSCONSULT
Celso H. L. Silva-Junior
Research/Professor
Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia (IPAM)
Science Team
Yuquan Qu
Postdoctoral Researcher
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Carmen B. Steinmann
Postdoctoral Researcher
ETH Zurich
Guilherme Mataveli
Postdoctoral Researcher
National Institute for Space Research (INPE)
Esther Brambleby
Postgraduate Researcher
University of East Anglia
Miguel Ángel Torres-Vázquez
Postdoctoral Researcher
Universidad de Alcalá
Maria Lucia Ferreira Barbosa
Wildfire scientist
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Andrew J. Hartley
Climate Impacts Scientist
Met Office
Fiona R. Spuler
Postgraduate Researcher
University of Reading
Zhongwei Liu
Postdoctoral Research Associate
University of Leicester
Jakob B. Wessel
Postgraduate Researcher
University of Exeter
Enza Di Tomaso
Scientist
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Senior Partner
Sarah Meier
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
University of Exeter
Marco Turco
Postdoctoral Researcher
University of Murcia
Emilio Chuvieco
Professor
Universidad de Alcalá
Guido R. van der Werf
Professor
Wageningen University and Research
Niels Andela
Head of Remote Sensing
BeZero Carbon Ltd
Sander Veraverbeke
Associate professor
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Regional Panel Coordinator
Paulo M. Fernandes
Associate Professor
Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro
Crystal A. Kolden
Director UC Merced Fire Resilience Center
University of California, Merced
Hamish Clarke
Senior Research Fellow
University of Melbourne
Liana O. Anderson
Researcher
Cemaden/MCTI