Fellows : VISITING SCIENTISTS

2024-2025

George brown

Federal University of Paraná (Brazil)

Silvia GIORDANI

Dublin City University( Ireland)

Mohammad Raayatpanah

Kharazmi University (Iran)

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