Csaba Földesi
Knowledge Hub Coordinator
Csaba is currently coordinating the activities of the Amazon Region Network, as well as the linkages between the Amazon and Global networks. He is based in Wageningen University & Research and has a background on climate change, biodiversity and scenarios. He is also a fellow of the IPBES Task Force on Scenarios and Models.
Flavia Aschi
Junior Researcher
Flavia is currently coordinating activities for the Global Network, as well as reviewing all existing global biodiversity scenarios in literature. She is based at Utrecht University, where she works as Junior Assistant Professor with a background in biology, ecology and nature conservation.
Katharina Schulze
Bridging Science & Conservation
Katharina coordinates the project management of the knowledge hub. Her main focus lies on ensuring that scenarios and narratives are relevant for conservation. She works as Science & Impact advisor at WWF-Netherlands, and holds a PhD in land-use modelling, with focus on biodiversity, forest management and conservation.
Jeanne Nel
Advisor on knowledge co-production for transformative conservation science
Jeanne is the Programme Lead for Biodiverse Environments at Wageningen University & Research, with a research position at the Nelson Mandela University. Her work focuses on biodiversity and nature, and the linkages to global change and social development. Trained as an ecologist and conservation scientist, her work has broadened to a transformative and co-production domain, where she bridges across wildly different worlds to move people forward collectively, even despite disagreement.
Detlef van Vuuren
Member of the Steering Committee
Detlef is a professor of Integrated Assessment of Global Environmental Change at the Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University and senior researcher at the Netherlands Environmental Assessment (PBL), where he leads the IMAGE Integrated Assessment Modeling team. He has published more than 460 articles in papers and journals and belongs to a select group of few researchers worldwide who have been identified as “most cited researchers” in various scientific disciplines.
Rob Alkemade
Member of the Steering Committee
Rob is a special professor on global biodiversity and ecosystem services modelling at Wageningen University, and senior researcher at the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL), where he developed the GLOBIO model and guided its applications in scenario studies for Global Environmental Outlooks, Global Biodiversity Outlooks and OECD environmental outlooks.