Environmental Stress & Functional Ecology - ESFE

João Pedro Nunes

Researcher

Eco-hydrology Wildfires Land-sea interface

I received a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from the New University of Lisbon in 2008 and I am an associate professor at Wageningen University in the Netherlands, and also as a part-time researcher at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon. In the ESFE group of cE3c, I coordinate project FRISCO: “managing Fire-induced RISks of water quality Contamination”, and I am a representative in COST Action FIRELINKS: “Fire in the Earth System: Science & Society”.

My current research is driven by three major goals: i) assessing the response of socio-hydrological systems to climatic variability in the Mediterranean; ii) evaluating the eco-hydrological response of forested landscapes to fire disturbances; and iii) developing new methodologies to simulate hydrological systems adapted to Mediterranean conditions.