Oliver Binks

BSc in Ecology, PhD from the University of Edinburgh and postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF)

Location

Barcelona

Description

Oliver Binks graduated with an honours degree in Ecology and completed his PhD at the School of GeoSciences of the University of Edinburgh in 2016, on the ecophysiology of tropical rainforests. He then spent five years at the Australian National University in Canberra, researching water movement through soil and plants and its transition into the atmosphere.

He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF) in Barcelona, thanks to the Postdoctoral Junior Leader fellowships programme of the ”la Caixa” Foundation. His research is concerned with understanding how forests function and how they interact with the climate. Specifically, he is studying the role of wate storage and hydraulic capacitance in the climate sensitivity of European tree species and forests. 

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Máster MVA en la École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay (Francia)

Thanks to a postgraduate fellowship abroad from the "la Caixa" Foundation, Albert Gimó is studying for an MVA (Mathematics, Vision and Learning) master’s degree at ENS Paris-Saclay. His main interest lies in the safe and effective integration of ...

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Luciana Scrinzi

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BSc in Environmental Sciences and predoctoral researcher at the Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research from the Spanish National Research Council (IDAEA-CSIC)

Luciana graduated with a BSc degree in Environmental Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires in 2015, and an MSc in Water Sciences (joint degree from IHE Delft, TU Dresden and IST Lisbon) in 2018. She is currently working as a predoctoral ...

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Gonzalo Plaza Arriola

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Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence for Biomedicine and Healthcare at University College London (United Kingdom)

Thanks to a postgraduate fellowship abroad from the "la Caixa" Foundation, Gonzalo Plaza is studying for a master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence for Biomedicine and Healthcare at University College London (UCL). He also collaborates with the ...

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