Our Team

COORDINATOR

Rubén Valbuena

Professor, DSc, Phd

Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden

  • Scientific expertise in Remote Sensing of ecosystem structure, LIDAR ​

  • Contributor to IPCC 6th AR.​

  • Coordinator of NextGenCarbon (link here) and FORWARDS projects. Leading or contributing to monitoring tasks in several projects: SUPERB, MoniFun, TRANSFORMIT.

In-situ Supersites & RS Integration


Lead

Martin Herold 

Professor and section head (Remote Sensing and Geoinformation) 

German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), Germany

  • Large-area monitoring of land and forest dynamics integrating satellite and ground-based data streams from a scientific and user needs perspective

  • Top 1% cited scientists in the field (Web of Science 2019-24)

  • Lead author of the 2019 IPCC Good Practice Guidelines refinement

Co-Lead

Martin Jung 

Dr

Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry,  Germany 

  • Pioneered the FLUXCOM approach of integrating eddy-covariance and satellite Remote Sensing with machine learning​

  • Long-standing experience in data-driven carbon and water cycle modelling

Large Scale Spatial Analysis


Lead

Gherardo Chirici

Professor 

University of Florence, Italy

  • Expert in Remote Sensing and multiscale integration of different sources of information​

Co-Lead

Richard Fuchs

Dr

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

  • Main focus on changes in land cover/use & management​

  • Co-developer of HILDA+ model, which provides a reconstruction of global annual land cover/use and its changes (1960-today) at 1km spatial resolution.

Vegetation Demographics Observations & Modeling


Lead

Rosie Fisher

PhD,  Forsker I (Research Professor) 

CICERO Centre for International Climate Science, Norway

• Scientific expertise in land surface modeling, ecosystem demography and plant physiology.
• Co-chair of the Community Land Model
• Experience in Earth System Model development and calibration. 

Co-Lead

Rubén Valbuena 

Professor, DSc, PhD

Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden

  • Scientific expertise in Remote Sensing of ecosystem structure, LIDAR ​

  • Co-leader of Ecosystem Structure work group in GEOBON

  • Pioneered Lorenz curve  methods to evaluate ecosystem structure and heterogeneity.

Enhanced Model Representation of Anthropogenic and Natural Disturbances


Lead

Julia Pongratz

Professor

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Germany

  • Led the development of the first gridded bookkeeping model of land-use change (BLUE)​

  • Coordinates the land use component in the annual carbon budgets (GCB). IPCC contributor.​

  • Leads one of the largest publicly funded programs on carbon dioxide removal (CDRterra)​

Co-Lead

Guillaume Marie

Dr

Science Partners

  • Expert in multi-scale ecosystem modelling​

  • Specialized in the representation of explicit human or natural disturbances and their consequences on C cycle.​

Data Assimilation Developments & Model-Data Fusion


Lead

Mike O'Sullivan

Dr

University of Exeter, United Kingdom

  • Works on Global Carbon Budget and TRENDY coordination​

  • Experience working with Earth observation and process-based models

Co-Lead

Philippe Peylin

Professor 

Climate and Environment Sciences Laboratory (LSCE)​, France

  • Expertise in developing and using process-based land surface models (LSMs) in combination with site-scale and satellite observations to unravel the physical and biogeochemical responses to anthropogenic perturbations

GHG Budgets, LULUCF Reconciliation & Synthesis 


Lead

Philippe Ciais 

Professor

Climate and Environment Sciences Laboratory (LSCE), France

  • Expert in carbon cycle and climate, geosciences and environment, and ecology ​

  • Understanding the relationships between terrestrial GHG fluxes and climate​

  • Ranked as the most productive scientific author in the field of climate change publications​

Co-Lead

Stephen Sitch

Professor

University of Exeter, United Kingdom

  • Over 30 years’ research experience in Earth System Science ​

  • Co-leads TRENDY, which provides land flux estimates for the annual GCB update

Scenario Modelling of the Carbon Cycle


Lead

Ana Bastos

Professor

Leipzig University, Germany

  • Extensive experience in combining multiple data streams from observations and models to improve assessments of regional to global carbon budgets​

  • Strong focus on impacts of extreme events and disturbances​

  • ERC StG grant awarded in 2021, and co-leader of RECCAP2

Co-Lead

Benjamin Sanderson

Dr

CICERO Center for International Climate Research, Norway

  • ESM scenario experimental design (ScenarioMIP, CMIP7)​

  • SCM modeling ​

  • Interaction of Earth-System processses with mitigation technology, land use and negative emissions

Communication, Impact and Policy Outreach


Lead

Rubén Valbuena 

Professor, DSc, PhD

Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden

  • Contributor to IPCC 6th AR.​

  • Leading the European Lidar Forest Map Initiative

  • Contributing to the development of EU policies: nature restoration, forest monitoring, carbon removal and carbon farming


Co-Lead

Gert-Jan Nabuurs

Professor European Forest Resources

WENR, Wageningen University and Research, Netherlands

  • Expert in European forest resource and impacts of management

  • IPCC Coordinating lead author, including LULUCF guidance

Communication & Management Team


Project Manager

Sabina Klausmeyer

Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden

Forest Remote Sensing, Department of Forest Resource Management

Project Manager

Niina Valbuena

Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden

Forest Remote Sensing, Department of Forest Resource Management

Communications Officer

Sanna-Kaisa Riihimäki

Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden

Forest Remote Sensing, Department of Forest Resource Management

collaboration in project

Partners

NextGenCarbon is benefiting from the expertise of 21 European partners:

Funded by the European Union. However, the views and opinions expressed are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or CINEA. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.