Voluntary services

Current 

• Vice-president, Sociedad Chilena de Ciencias Forestales - SOCIFOR (2023-2025).

• Associate Editor, New Forests : An International Journal Biology, Biotechnology, and Management  of Afforestation and Reforestation (March 2019-ongoing).

• Associate editor, Ecological Processes  (January 2021- ongoing).

• Guest editor,  European Journal of Forest Research,  Uneven-aged silviculture: insights into forest adaptation in times of global change    

• Guest editor,  New Forests,  IUFRO Reforestation pipeline  

• Officeholder (South America), IUFRO  1.05.00 Uneven-aged silviculture (2024-2027)

• Reviewer for the  Fondecyt Regular program from ANID (2018, 2021, 2022)

Past 

• Officeholder (South America), IUFRO  1.05.00 Uneven-aged silviculture (2019-2024)

• Board Director,AIFBN (2017-2019)

• Organizer and scientific committee chair of the XI Uneven-aged silviculture workshop: challenges for increasing adaptability . 12-18 November 2018, Valdivia, Chile.  

• Editor jefe Revista Bosque Nativo [Editor-in-chief of Native Forest Journal from March 2010 - March 2014]   http://revista.bosquenativo.cl/index.htm

• Socio de la Agrupación de Ingenieros Forestales por el Bosque Nativo, desde 2006 - hasta ahora. [since 2006-ongoing]. http://www.bosquenativo.cl

• Editor asociado Revista Bosque Nativo, desde marzo 2008- hasta  marzo2010. [Associate Editor of Bosque Nativo Journal from March 2008- march 2010]. http://www.bosquenativo.cl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=86&Itemid=38   

• I was co-organizer of silviculture colloquium of temperate native forests of South-America. It was held at Neltume-Reserva Biologica Huilo-Huilo, Chile

• I served as a reviewer of Maria Viñas research grants from the government of Uruguay.

• Voluntary forestry service in rural community "campesinos" in Corral county. 

Reviewer in peer-review journals 

Bosque (n=8),   New Forests (n=7), Forest Ecology and Management (n=6), Revista Bosque Nativo (n=6), Journal of Applied Ecology (n=3),  Ecological Processes (n=3), Ecology and Evolution (n=3), Forestry (n=2), Anales del Instituto de la Patagonía (n=2), Agricultural and Forest Meteorology (n=2), New Zealand Journal of Forestry Science (n=2), Canadian Journal of Forest Research (n=2), Ciencia e Investigación Agraria (n=2),  Trees-Structure and Function (n=2), Gayana Botánica (n=2), Journal of Forestry (n=2), Ecological Engineering (n=1), Cerne (n=1),  PloS ONE (n=1), Forests (n=2), Plant Ecology (n=1),   Scientific Reports (n=1), Ecological Indicators (n=1), Austral Ecology (n=1).

Awards

• Robert F. Tarrant Fellowship award 2016-2017. FES-Oregon State University. In recognition of exemplary performance and outstanding achievements as a graduate student of the Forest Ecosystems and Society program. Tarrant award is given a graduate student who will contribute to improved hardwood Ecology and Silviculture.

• Outstanding international graduate student award 2016-2017. From College of Forestry, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA.

• Robert F. Tarrant Fellowship Award 2015-2016. FES-Oregon State University. In recognition of exemplary performance and outstanding achievements as a graduate student of the Forest Ecosystems and Society program. Tarrant award is given a graduate student who will contribute to improved hardwood Ecology and Silviculture.

• Dean’s Fund for International Engagement award 2014, College of Forestry, Oregon State University. 

• Schutz family fellowship award 2013-2014. Meritorious academic achievement. From College of Forestry, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA.

• Best graduate student 2013 (Master of Science degree), Faculty of Forest Sciences and Natural Resources, Universidad Austral de Chile.

• Becas Chile Scholarship for pre-doctoral degree 2013-2017. CONICYT Government of Chile. 

• Graduate school fellowship for master degree, Faculty of Forest Sciences and Natural Resources, Universidad Austral de Chile, since August 2011-July 2012.

• Premio Bosque Nativo 2010 [Native Forest Award; the most prominent forester of the 2010].

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• Marquis Who's who in the World 2011.

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