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Get to know Mario Tapia

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Hi! My name is Mario Tapia and I am Early Stage Researcher (ESR) 3 with Pyrolife. I am excited to join the Tecnosylva team in Spain to conduct research on fire behavior in temperate Northwest Europe. During this journey I will also collaborate with Paulo Fernandes at the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD) and Andy Elliot of WildfireTacAd as part of my secondments. I am from the San Francisco Bay area in California and my home has an extensive history with natural hazards. Events such as earthquakes, floods and wildfires have always fascinated me and I was driven […]
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Get to know Pooja Pandey

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Hello! My name is Pooja Pandey; I am an Early Stage Researcher (ESR) 13 with Pyrolife. I am excited to be working under the guidance of Dr George Boustras at European University in Cyprus. Specially, I will be working within the Centre of Excellence in Risk and Decision Sciences (CERIDES) researching interagency exchange. I will also be working within the FireAid in Denmark and Tecnosylva in Spain for my secondments. I am from India and have spent most of my life living in the northern part of the country. I have always read news about wildfire fueled by human activities […]
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Get to know Carmen Rodríguez

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¡Hola! My name is Carmen Rodríguez, and I am from Spain, and within Pyrolife I am also known as ESR1. I am doing my research on the potential of social innovation to increase wildfire resilience in Mediterranean socio-ecological systems. I am part of the Governance team at EFI Bonn (Germany), and I am a PhD candidate at KU Leuven (Belgium). The first one of my two secondments will take place in Lisbon (Portugal), hosted by Águas de Portugal, and the second one in Athens (Greece) with Démeter. My background is on forestry engineering, but with my master thesis I already […]
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Get to know Kathleen Uyttewaal

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Kathleen is a French and U.S. citizen with a Dutch last name, who speaks Spanish with a Chilean accent while living and working in Catalunya. Throughout her career she’s been a perpetual agroecology student, from her undergraduate degree at UC Berkeley to her master’s degree in Andalucía, and also as a farm laborer. She has acted as an environmental educator in California and Barcelona, working with participatory methods and youth empowerment. She’s been an agroecology research assistant in Chile and focused her Master’s thesis on climate resilience in California: Narratives from agroecological and indigenous landscapes. Mixing these ingredients of life experience […]
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Get to know Simona Dossi

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I am investigating European structure vulnerabilities to wildfires under the amazing supervision of Professor Guillermo Rein. I recently joined Prof. Rein’s research team, Hazelab, in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College London in the UK. Hazelab is dedicated to innovatively studying heat transfer, condensed-phase chemistry and the thermodynamics of fires, both within buildings and in the wild. Prior to joining Pyrolife, I received a Master of Chemical Engineering from the University of Edinburgh. My bachelor’s thesis consisted of a group incinerator plant design, which introduced me to the complexities and beauty of fire chemistry and interdisciplinary teamwork. My […]
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