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SLU Forest Damage Centre expands with new analyst
Published: 11 December 2024
Teresa López-Andújar Fustel is SLU Forest Damage Centre's newest addition - she takes on the role of analyst in the field of wind and snow. With this addition, the centre expands its analysis function, which now covers the areas of damage - fire and drought, insects, fungi, viruses and bacteria, wildlife, wind and snow, as well as the socio-economic consequences of damage and risk and impact assessments with Heureka.
Teresa comes most recently from the Department of Forest Resource Management where she recently defended her thesis Forest planning to reduce disturbance damage in the context of climate change and where she will continue to work partly as a post-doctoral student.
‒ I am very excited to join the analyst group at Forest Damage Centre. A few years ago, I started working with forest planning to reduce wind damage at the property level and my interest has only grown since then. As an analyst I would like contribute to increase and share our knowledge on how to create more resistant forests to a variety of natural disturbances such as wind and snow.
Together with the other eight analysts, Teresa will, among other things, contribute to creating knowledge compilations, analyses of national risks of damage outbreaks and develop a basis for how risks can be reduced both now and in the future.
- It is great that we finally have an analyst for wind and snow in place. Storms are often an event that initiates, for example, outbreaks of bark beetle and other things. It will be exciting to see how, with all the analysts in place, we can improve our work with forest damage and be able to work with the whole picture,’ says Jonas Rönnberg, Director of the SLU Forest Damage Centre.
Teresa will start her role as analyst on 1 January 2025.