Meet the Team. Who We Are?
The GFBI currently is comprised of over 100 individuals and organizations, and is managed by a core group of scientists (GFB Steering Committee) responsible for the GFB Data Center (GFB-DC) and for facilitating data management.
Participating Institutes
GFBI Governing Board
Jingjing Liang
Purdue University
Peter B. Reich
University of Minnesota; Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment
Thomas W. Crowther
ETH Zurich Global Ecosystems Ecology Crowther Lab
Sergio de Miguel
Department of Crop and Forest Sciences, University of Lleida. Joint Research Unit CTFC - Agrotecnio
Gert-Jan M.M. Nabuurs
Wageningen University and Research (Environmental Sciences Group)GFBI Steering Committee
Alain Paquette
International Diversity Experiment Network with Trees (IDENT), Centre d'étude de la forêt (CEF), Université du Québec à Montréal
Bruno Hérault
Cirad, UMR EcoFoG (AgroParisTech, CNRS, INRA, Université des Antilles, Université de la Guyane), Kourou, French Guiana.
Gert-Jan M.M. Nabuurs
Wageningen University and Research (Environmental Sciences Group)
Giorgio Alberti
Associate Professor in Silviculture and Forest Management, Di4A - Department of Agri-Food, Animal and Environmental Sciences, University of Udine
Han Chen
Professor, Faculty of Natural Resources Management
Hans Pretzsch
Chair for Forest Growth and Yield Science, Faculty of Forest Science and Resource Management, Technische Universität München
Javier G.P. Gamarra
Forestry Department,Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
JeanFrancois Bastin
Global Ecosystems Ecology, Crowther Lab ETH Zurich
Jingjing Liang
Purdue University
Mo Zhou
Assistant Professor of Forest Economics, Purdue University
Nicolas Picard
GIP ECOFOR, Paris, France
Peter B. Reich
University of Minnesota; Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment
Sergio de Miguel
Department of Crop and Forest Sciences, University of Lleida. Joint Research Unit CTFC - Agrotecnio
Susan Wiser
Landcare Research, New Zealand
Thomas W. Crowther
ETH Zurich Global Ecosystems Ecology Crowther LabGFBI Members
Prof Giorgio Alberti
Silviculture and Forest Management, Di4A – Department of Agri-Food, Animal and Environmental Sciences, University of Udine, Italy
Dr Angelica M Almeyda Zambrano
Assistant Professor, Department of Tourism, Recreation and Sport Management, University of Florida, USA
Dr Patricia Alvarez-Loayza
Center for Tropical Conservation, Duke University, NC 27705, USA The Field Museum, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Prof Christian Ammer
Department of Silviculure and Forest Ecology of the Temperate Zones; University of Göttingen, Germany
Prof William RL Anderegg
Department of Biology, University of Utah
Dr Valerio Avitabile
European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Bio-Economy Unit, Via E. Fermi 2749, I-21027 Ispra (VA), Italy; Centre for Geo-Information and Remote Sensing, Wageningen University & Research, Droevendaalsesteeg 3, 6708PB Wageningen, The Netherlands
Dr Clara Antón-Fernández
Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research, Po. Box 115, NO-1431 Ås, Norway
Mr Radomir Balazy
Forest Research Institute, Braci Lesnej 3 Street, Sekocin Stary, 05-090 Raszyn, Poland
Prof Christopher B Barrett
College of Business, Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management, Department of Economics, and Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future, Cornell University, USA
Dr. JeanFrancois Bastin
Landscape Ecology and Plant Production System, Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
Mr Luca Birigazzi
Forestry Department, Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, Rome, 00153
Dr Philippe Birnbaum
CIRAD, UMR 51 AMAP, F-34398 Montpellier, France; Institut Agronomique n eo-Cal edonien (IAC), BP. A5, 98848, Noum ea, New Caledonia
Dr Robert Bitariho
Institute of Tropical Forest Conservation, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Uganda
Prof Sonké Bonaventure
Plant Systematic and Ecology Laboratory, Department of Biology, Higher Teachers’ Training College, University of Yaounde I, P.O. Box 047 Yaounde, Cameroon
Prof Frans Bongers
Wageningen University & Research, Department of Environmental Sciences, PO Box 47, 6700AA Wageningen, The Netherlands
Prof Matthew G Betts
Forest Biodiversity Network, Dept. of Forest Ecosystems and Society, Oregon State University, USA
Mr Fabio Bozzato
Italcementi S.p.a., Environment Department, Italy
Prof Pedro HS Brancalion
Department of Forest Sciences, “Luiz de Queiroz” College of Agriculture, University of São Paulo
Mrs Susanne Brandl
Bavarian State Institute of Forestry, Hans-Carl-von-Carlowitz-Platz 1, Freising 85354, Germany;
Chair for Forest Growth and Yield Science, TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technical University of Munich, Hans-Carl-von-Carlowitz-Platz 2, 85354 Freising, Germany
Mr Urs-Beat Brändli
Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Zürcherstrasse 111, CH-8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland
Prof Felipe Bravo
Sustainable Forest Management Research Institute (iuFOR), Universidad de Valladolid & INIA, Campus at Palencia, Spain
Dr Francis Q Brearley
School of Science and the Environment, Manchester Metropolitan University, Chester Street, Manchester, M1 5GD, United Kingdom
Dr Eben N Broadbent
Spatial Ecology & Conservation Lab, School of Forest Resources and Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32611
Prof Helge Bruelheide
Institute of Biology / Geobotany and Botanical Garden, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Am Kirchtor 1, 06108 Halle (Saale), Germany;
German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Deutscher Platz 5e, 04103 Leipzig, Germany.