Andrea Hevia, PhD

I am Andrea Hevia, posdoctoral research at the University of Sevilla (Spain). Member of the Research Group RNM-313 (Estructura y función en ecosistemas mediterráneos) and external collaborator of UXAFORES (USC, Galicia). 

 

I completed a PhD in Forest Engineer at the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC) in 2013 (PhD Award, USC & IUFRO World Award), with a 4 years PhD scholarship from the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science (FPU). During my PhD I was focused on silviculture (pruning and thinning), forest modelling, forest risks (fire), tree biomass, wood quality and tree responses to forest management. Between 2011 and 2017 I was working as a predoctoral and posdoctoral researcher at the Forest and Wood Technology Research Centre (CETEMAS, Spain), where I also worked in Dendrochronology and Itrax multiscanner (wood density and dendrochemistry, micro-XRF). Since 2018 to 2023 I was working as a posdoctoral researcher at the University of Huelva, University Pablo de Olavide and the University of Jaén (Andalucia, Spain).  I have also visited several Institutions for research collaborations in Spain (IPE-CSIC), Portugal (University of Coimbra, ISA-Lisboa), Switzerland (WSL), Germany (University of Greifswald) UK-Scotland (Forestry Commission), Czech Republic (Mendel University, Brno) and Sweden (University of Stockholm).

 

My current research is focused on forest management and silviculture, wood properties, long-term nutrients (insights from tree-rings), forest growth and production (biomass and carbon sequestration) and interaction with climate change and forest risks (e.g. forest fire). In addition, my research interests include assessing environmental changes, vulnerability and adaptation of forests.

 

I has taught in several national and international training schools and seminars for silviculture, wood quality, dendroecology and dendrochemistry (e.g. European Dendroecological Fieldweek 2014, pre-TRACE courses TRACE 2015). I has co-organized the European Dendroecological Fieldweek 2014 with WSL, as well as TRACE 2015 (also as Scientific Committee) with ATR. I have been co-convener and chair of session in SIBECOL 2019 (“Growth footprints: the challenge of time in plant and animal ecology”), TRACE 2019 ("Forest growth responses to environmental stress") and  AEET 2021 ("Revelando los secretos ecológicos de la madera: dendroecología y anatomía cuantitativa"); also co-convener in EGU2019 ("Interdisciplinary Tree-ring session"). I has participated in more than 30 national and international Congresses, co-author of 1 book and more than 40 SCI publications. I has supervised 1 PhD thesis, 2 Msc and 2 Bsc.

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I am associate Editor of Forest Systems and International Journal of Forestry Research, and Guest Editor of Science of the Total Environment (Special Issue: "Applications of dendrochemistry in Environmental Sciences") and Remote Sensing ("3D Point Clouds in Forest Remote Sensing: Part II" and "3D Point Clouds in Forest Remote Sensing: Part III").

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IUFRO Outstanding Doctoral Research Award given in recognition of the outstanding scientific achievements in the doctoral research within the field of monitoring, forest management and modelling of forests.

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