Fellows : VISITING SCIENTISTS
2023-2024
Ramia AL BAKAIN
The University of Jordan (Jordan)
patrick allard
University of California Los Angeles (USA)
PHILIPPE BARET
University of Louvain (Belgium)
FRANCES CLEAVER
Lancaster University (United Kingdom)
Chih-hao HSIEH
National Taiwan University (Taiwan)
Jean Paul METZGER
University of São Paulo (Brazil)
Filomena SILVA
Aragonese Foundation for Research and Development (Spain)
Armand SOLDERA
University of Sherbrooke (Canada)
2022-2023
Gunnar keppel
Associate Professor in Environmental Biology
University of South Australia (Australia)
Project: The impacts of tropical cyclones on rain forest structure and functioning
Fellowship dates: 05/01/2023 – 30/06/2023
karl zimmer
Professor of Geography
Pennsylvania State University (USA)
Project: Food and Nutrition Interactions with Agrobiodiversity
Fellowship dates:01/09/2022 – 30/06/2023
Llinersy Uranga-Piña
Professor of Theoretical Physics
University of Havana (Cuba)
Project: Accurate quantum dynamics of molecules and reactions in the Earth’s atmosphere
Fellowship dates:01/09/2022 – 30/06/2023
Eduardo Somarriba
Professor of Tropical Agroforestry
Center for Tropical Agriculture Research and Education (Costa Rica)
Project: The optimal design of coffee and cocoa agroforestry systems
Fellowship dates:01/09/2022 – 30/06/2023
Brian Dowd-Uribe
Associate Professor in Human Geography
University of San Francisco (USA)
Project: Innovating Success in Africa: How power, knowledge production and communications project GM crop promise amidst lackluster results
Fellowship dates:01/09/2022 – 30/06/2023
Bibiana Bilbao
Full Professor of Environmental Studies
Simón Bolívar University (Venezuela)
Project: Fire management strategies in Latin America: New challenges and opportunities for policymakers in changing climate scenarios
Fellowship dates:01/09/2022 – 30/06/2023
Raina Plowright
Professor of Disease Ecology
Cornell University (USA)
Project: Proactive strategies to prevent pandemics
Fellowship dates: 01/09/2022 – 28/02/2023
2021-2022
Craig Goergen
Leslie A. Geddes Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Purdue University (USA)
Project: Retrospectively gated multispectral 4D photoacoustic cardiac and brain imaging
Fellowship dates: 14/03/2022 – 15/07/2022
MARCELO LORENZO
Senior Researcher in Biology
Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Brazil)
Project: On the track of a tool for sustainable Chagas control
Fellowship dates: 14/02/2022 – 31/07/2022
KAZEM ZIBARA
Professor of Genetics
Lebanese University (Lebanon)
Project: The serine protease inhibitor SPINK2 as a prognostic and therapeutic target in acute myeloid leukemia
Fellowship dates: 24/01/2022 – 24/07/2022
KATERYNA MAKOVA
Pentz Professor of biology
Pennsylvania State University(USA)
Project: Non-B DNA
Fellowship dates: 16/09/2021 – 15/09/2022
ANTON NEKRUTENKO
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Pennsylvania State University (USA)
Project: Developing a global analysis platform for microbial genetics
Fellowship dates: 6/09/2021 – 15/07/2022
WILLIAM MOSELEY
DeWitt Wallace Professor of Geography
Macalester College (USA)
Project: A Geographic Revolution: Prioritizing Food Access and Agroecology in African Development
Fellowship dates: 01/09/2021 – 31/12/2021
Roel Plant
Adjunct Professor of Landscapes and Ecosystems Geography
University of Technology Sydney (Australia)
Project: Tackling Peri-Urban Land Use Change: Landscape approaches for sustainable peri-urban land transitions
Fellowship dates: 19/04/2021 – 19/02/2022
GAUKHAR KONUSPAYEVA
Professor of Biochemistry
Al-Farabi Kazakh National University (Kazakhstan)
Project: Camel milk technology and markets: a new frontier for sustainable food systems in the 21st century
Fellowship dates: 06/04/2021 – 06/02/2022
2020-2021
PRISCA MUGABE
Deputy Dean & Associate Professor of Rangeland Ecology and Animal Production
University of Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe)
Project: Evaluating and foreseeing impact of agricultural & conservation science in partnership for sustainable social-ecological systems’
Fellowship dates:01/04/2021 – 30/06/2021
EDERSON JESUS
Researcher Investigator on Soil Microbiology
EMBRAPA (Brazil)
Project: A tale of symbiosis: Unveiling the interaction between the common bean and its rhizobial symbionts
Fellowship dates: 01/02/2021 – 31/12/2021
Gabriela Litre
Associate Researcher on Global Environmental Change and Public Policies
University of Brasilia (Brazil)
Project: Potentialities and Limits of Knowledge Co- Production for the Equitable Internalization of the Sustainable Development Goals: An Analysis of Brazil’s Observatory of the Dynamics between Societies and Environments through a Nexus+ Perspective
Fellowship dates: 01/09/2020 – 30/08/2021