Research

My research interests include the following topics:

• Wildfires: I developed a great interest in fire ecology and management. I study how trees, forests and landscapes respond and drive wildfires, particularly plant traits, fire resistance, post-fire recovery, lightning ignitions and other similar topics related to wildfires and their management.

• Forest ecology and management: as a forester, I am interested in how forests respond to climate and land use change, especially the resilience to these rapid changes. I am also interested in other relationships between global change  and forest ecosystems, such as changes in the regimes of natural disturbances (wind, drought, insects, ect).

• Forest monitoring: I use remote sensing and data science tools to monitor and model forest structure and processes. I use R and GIS software constantly. However, I love fieldwork. That is s the only way to gather valuable data and understand what is going on in the forest.

• Conservation biology: before my PhD, I focused my research on forest biodiversity conservation. To be more precise, on the role of forests as habitat for endangered wildlife species.  

Below is a list of my research projects:

• Resilience of larch forests to global change

• Lightning-caused forest fires in Switzerland

• FIRESKY - Fire from the sky: understanding lightning fires in the Pyrocene