Jordi Garcia Gonzalo

Head of programme

PROGRAM / Landscape dynamics

After obtaining his PhD in Forestry from the University of Joensuu (Finland) in 2007. He joined the School of Agriculture in Lisbon (Portugal) where he participated in several international projects both as a team member (integrated project FP6 EFORWOOD, FP7 MOTIVE) and as main coordinator (FP7 Marie Curie ForEAdapt, SADRI). In July 2015 He joined the Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia in Solsona (Spain) as a Ramón y Cajal researcher where He was principal investigator of two projects, EFOREST funded by the Restos programme (MINECO/ERDF) and SuFoRun funded by the Marie Skodowska-Curie Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE) programme of the H2020 framework programme (H2020-MSCA-RISE-2015). He is currently the PI of the DecisionES project funded by the Marie Skodowska-Curie Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE) programme of the H2020 framework programme (H2020-MSCA-RISE-2020) and member of the coordination team for FIRERES.

His research interests focus on the development of forest ecosystem management models, optimization methods and decision support systems. The main objective is to develop scientifically sound methods that can be used by the public administration, forest owners, industry and non-governmental organizations for enhanced integration of adaptive strategies in multiple-objective landscape management planning and for an improvement of existing policy and management approaches. This includes the development of innovative tools and methods (e.g decision support systems) that may address the complexity of multi-objective and multi-stakeholder landscape planning under climate change and other risks (e.g. forest fires, pests). The results of his research have been published in more than 75 SCI articles, referenced a total of 3700 times according to "scopus", and accumulated an h-index of 26 (according to scopus).