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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