Prof. Dr. Josep Peñuelas (CREAF-CSIC)
CSIC Research Professor & Main researcher
Global ecology, climate change, atmospheric pollution, biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds emissions, remote sensing, plant ecophysiology, functioning and structure of terrestrial plants and ecosystems, chemical ecology and metabolomics, macroecology and biogeochemistry.
Dr. Jordi Sardans (CREAF-CSIC)
CREAF Research Scientist I3
My main work is in the context of the relationships between terrestrial ecosystems structure and function with biogeochemical cycles (P, C, N, K,..), and coupling ecological stoichiometry and ecometabolomics approaches with ecosystems composition and function. I apply these studies to experimental and observational field data and to metadata analyses
Dr. Iolanda Filella (CREAF-CSIC)
CSIC Senior Research Scientist
Development of remote sensing techniques to assess plant and ecosystem functioning, global and climate change effects on the structure and functioning of Mediterranean ecosystems, mechanisms and functions of plant-emitted volatile organic compounds.
Dr. Marcos Fernández-Martínez (CREAF-CSIC)
Post-doc
The effect of nutrient availability on forest features, productivity and carbon balance from a macroecological perspective.
Dr. Olga Margalef (CREAF-CSIC, IIASA)
CREAF Research Scientist I4
Biogeochemical aspects of phosphorus cycle.
Dr. Paolo Zuccarini
Post-doc
Agronomist/environmentalist specialized in plant ecophysiological responses to abiotic stresses in the frame of Climate Change, and in nutrient cycling in agricultural and forest ecosystems
Projects:
“What makes leaves fall in autumn? A new process description for the timing of leaf senescence in temperate and boreal trees”. (Ref.: ERC Starting Grant 714916)
“Imbalance-P: Effects of phosphorus limitations on Life, Earth system and Society”. (Ref.: Synergy Grant 610028)
Helena Vallicrosa (CREAF-CSIC)
PhD student
My main work is about searching relationships between biogeochemical cycles and elemental composition of plant-soil system with some of the main ecological and environmental traits (grow, diversity, climate, soil type, photosynthetic capacity, metabolic function…) at world scale. Furthermore I am interested in niche modeling, mediterranean ecosystem and tropical forests.