Ignacio is Laureate of the Make Our Planet Great Again (MOPGA) Research Program at CNRS, based at the Laboratoire d’écologie alpine, Université Grenoble Alps, France. His research focuses on human-nature interactions, nature-based adaptation to climate change and transformative adaptation. He has specialized in socio-ecological systems in mountain areas. He is interested in transdisciplinary science and its impact towards policy relevant targets such as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Ignacio is Lead Author of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), member of the Global Young Academy (GYA) and founding member of the Spanish Young Academy. In addition, Ignacio is part of the protected areas commission of the United Nations International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

Sandra obtained a PhD in ecology in 1991. She manages a research group on the ‘Dynamics of socio-ecosystems in a changing world’ at the Alpine Ecology Laboratory in Grenoble. Shel has received numerous awards including the Silver Medal of CNRS (2013), the Alexander von Humboldt Medal of the International Association for Vegetation Science (2015) and the Marsh Award of the British Ecological Society (2017). She was elected as a member of the French Academy of Sciences in 2013. After a PhD in plant community ecology, Sandra’s career has been dedicated to linking global change impacts on biodiversity to changes in ecosystem functioning. Sandra’s current research focuses on impacts on ecosystems and their services of combined changes in climate and land management. From 2013 to 2019, she chaired the French National Ecosystem Assessment and has been an active contributor to assessments of the International Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem services (IPBES). In particular she was a lead author of the Europe and Central Asia assessment where she coordinated the work on pathways to sustainable futures. She joined the Multidisciplinary Expert Panel of IPBES in 2018.

Bruno is an environmental scientist with CIRAD and is currently seconded to CIFOR. His research interests focus on how ecosystem services contribute to reducing the vulnerability of people to climate variations and how ecosystem-based adaptation can be designed and implemented in local initiatives and national or international policies. His interests are also related to the assessment, mapping and modeling of ecosystem services and the synergies or tradeoffs between climate change adaptation and mitigation in ecosystem management and policies. He has been based in Peru since 2013 and previously worked in Indonesia (2008-2013) and Costa Rica (2002-2007). More info

Sandrine is Director of Research at CNRS. Her scientific career is a contribution to the understanding of the interactions between relief and water cycle. Since the late 1990s, she has been helping to bring together the “atmospheric” and “hydrological” communities. She has been strongly involved in the international HyMeX programme, studying hydrometeorological processes at mesoscale towards spatio-temporal scales adapted to address the question of the evolution of rainfall patterns in a context of climate change. One of the original features of her research concerns the integration of the social component into the study of extreme hydrometeorological events. Since 2012, she has been co-leading the Ouranos-AuRA Science-Society interface structure, which aims to bring the academic community closer to that of territorial actors on issues related to the impact of climate change.

Nicolas is Full Professor at University Grenoble Alpes, France and researcher at PACTE laboratory. He works on question of coordination between actors and conventions which might lead to sustainability. These works are mostly to territorial ecology, with the analysis of territorial dynamics through the analysis of regional metabolism. He is currently co-piloting a Cross Disciplinary Project, Trajectories. This project addresses sustainable development in mountain territories faced with global changes.

Emilie is a researcher at the Mountain Ecosystems and Societies Lab. (LESSEM) at INRAE, the French National Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment. She works on adaptation of mountain social-ecological systems to changes, from global to local scales, in particular regarding the agropastoral sector. She is the scientific coordinator of the Sentinel Mountain Pastures, a transdisciplinary network aiming at gaining knowledge on the impacts of climate change on agropastoral systems and at identifying possible adaptation strategies. She is also involved in integrated ecosystem service assessments at various scales and part of the scientific committee of the French national ecosystem assessment (EFESE).

Philippe is full professor at University Grenoble-Alpes, and member of PACTE laboratory. He conducts cultural geography research on mountain tourism and nature sports, in terms of recreational utopias, crises and criticisms of the tourism sector, changes in professional cultures and post-tourism phenomena and currently, the effects of climate change on recreational practices. He is scientific coordinator of “Sentinel huts” project, crossing questions between natural and social sciences to develop suitable methodologies for carrying out long-term observations and research based on a network of mountain huts considered as privileged laboratories.

Enora is graduated in Ecology and Environmental Political Science and holds a PhD in Environment from Grenoble-Alps University, France. Her research interest is mainly focused on the adaptation of social-ecological systems to global changes, especially through the study of co-production of nature’s contributions to people and the analysis of social-economic levers and pathways for mountain regions’ adaptation and transformation. Her research methods are place-based and transdisciplinary, based on the co-production of knowledge with local stakeholders.
Currently, her post-doc within the PORTAL project focuses on the co-construction of nature-based adaptation solutions (NBaS) scaling pathways toward sustainable objectives, with a study site in Grenoble basin, France.
Enora is also co-founder and co-president of the association Collectif Perce Neige, an active network that promotes the practice of inter- and trans-disciplinarity by young researchers on issues of mountain social-ecological systems.

Alberto is Geographer and PhD in Ecology by the Autonomous University of Madrid. His research is focused on supply and demand dynamics of ecosystem through models and maps for spatial planning purposes. Currently he is quantifying and mapping the outcomes of nature-based solutions in the Alps and identifying the benefits and beneficiaries. Alberto has collaborated in different projects related with ecosystem services and decision making in Spain, such as ECOGRADIENTES in urban-rural gradients and INTEMARES in marine ecosystems. Other interests are related with social-ecological systems, protected areas, sustainability sciences and circular economy.

Titouan is a PhD student involved in the PORTAL project for a 3-year PhD started in September 2020. He was interested in the contribution of the ecosystems to people and that is why he directed his studies at French National School of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences of Toulouse (INP-ENSAT). Then, regarding the current issue of biodiversity loss, he decided to follow a master’s degree in functional, behavioural and evolutionary ecology at the University of Rennes 1. After studying the impact of climate change on the boreal ecosystems at the Terrestrial Interactions Research Group (University of Helsinki), and the pollination potential of grasslands at the Dynafor lab, it becomes essential for him to focus his future research on the potential adaptive pathways of our socio-ecological systems to be more resilient to climate change. Because he has long been captivated by mountainous areas, Titouan found in the PORTAL project a suitable opportunity to get acquainted with the Ecosystem-based Adaptation research field in Alpine area. He was firstly involved in the PORTAL project for his master thesis during which he identified more than 50 nature-based adaptation initiatives in the Alps.

Danielle Ziebelin has been full professor in the department of computer science, mathematics and applied mathematics in University Grenoble-Alpes, since 2010. Her main research interests are artificial intelligence, knowledge representation, reasoning and decision making. Many of her research projects are about improving the understanding, designing, and implementing of data interoperability, consensual knowledge, ontologies, F.A.I.R architecture. The current main applications of this research concern data science and semantic interoperability in environmental sciences and cultural and patrimonial heritage. The techniqueused is semantic web technology with spatio-temporal models.

Lucía is a Master student from the Universität Innsbruck and Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, where she studies ‘Environmental Management of Mountain Areas’. She is passionate about mountains and therefore found in the PORTAL project the perfect space to develop her master thesis. Her concerns around the prospects of nature in the context of climate change lead her to study Environmental Sciences at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM). During her degree she developed an interest in the relationship between ecological and social ecosystems. After completing her degree, she decided to move to the Alps to study her Masters. She studied for one year in Bolzano-Bozen (Italy) and learnt about mountain ecosystems and rural areas in the Alps. She is now finishing her second year in Innsbruck (Austria), and is deeply interested in connecting the different fields of sustainability with socio-ecological ecosystems in mountain areas, in a framework of a changing climate. Lucía hopes that with her thesis within the PORTAL project she can provide valuable knowledge regarding Ecosystem-Based Adaptation measures (EbA) and sustainability goals in the Alps.

Natacha is an intern involved in the PORTAL project for two months. She is a second-year student at French National School of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences of Toulouse (INP-ENSAT). This is a generalist course that aims to train future engineers to deal with agricultural and environmental issues. Natacha wishes to move towards a specialisation focused on natural resources management and biology of conservation and restoration.
Because she wanted to acquire new skills in ecology, conservation of ecosystems and species and in particular into mountain areas, she decided to do a gap year during her studies to have the opportunity to do different internships. Particularly interested through the protection of natural environments in the context of climate change and the concept of Ecosystem-based Adaptation, she joined the project team to bring her contribution to identify and map the initiatives.

Audrey is a first-year student in the Master of Environmental Sciences Applied to Mountains at the University of Savoie Mont Blanc. It’s a multidisciplinary training that combines ecology and geology in order to understand the tools and methods to manage and protect the wealth of our mountains. She is passionate about the wild fauna and flora of the Alps and wants to participate in their conservation in view of climate change. She joined the PORTAL project team for a two-month internship to work with Natacha on mapping and identifying Nature-based Solutions initiatives. This internship gives her the opportunity to have a first experience in research and to participate in an ambitious project that gives hope for the future.

Camille is a second-year student in La Prépa des INP. These studies aim to prepare students integrate INP engineering schools in various domains such as electronic or biology. After three months in Bordeaux INP preparatory class, to study biology, she chose to complete her theoretical background with a six-week internship at the LECA. Interested in environmental and social issues, she wishes to make her training useful by becoming an actress of tomorrow in order to build a responsible world. She joined PORTAL project’s team to communicate on the identified climate change adaptation initiatives by describing them on the PORTAL project website. It gives her the opportunity to deepen her knowledge and expand her skills, in linguistics as well as in her areas of interest. Besides, it is the perfect occasion to discover the research world before integrating an engineering school.

Dr. Elena Bennett is a Professor at McGill. She received her BA in Biology and Environmental Studies from Oberlin College in Ohio in 1994, earned her MSc in Land Resources in 1999 (U. Wisconsin) and her PhD in Limnology and Marine Sciences in 2002 (U. Wisconsin). She is co-chair of the international project ecoSERVICES, which aims to set the research agenda for ecosystem services for the coming decade, and lead author on the IPBES Global Assessment. Dr. Bennett was a Leopold Leadership Fellow (2012), and a Trottier Public Policy Professor (2013-2014). At McGill, she has won awards for undergraduate teaching, graduate supervision, and contributions to campus sustainability. In 2012, she was selected to be one of two representatives of the Royal Society of Canada at the Summer Davos meeting of the World Economic Forum held in Tianjin, China. In 2016, she was named one of six NSERC Steacie Fellows.

Matt started his career with a PhD in medical entomology in 1985 at the University of Glasgow, followed by postdoctoral research on the immunology and epidemiology of allergic diseases. Matt moved to Australia in 1994 to pursue a research career with CSIRO on soil biodiversity and ecosystem function. In 2007 Matt commenced research on the ecology and management of floodplains and wetlands, with an emphasis on the water resources of the Murray-Darling Basin. In 2012 he shifted his focus towards adaptation to research on changing the ways that people think and act on adaptation to climate change, particularly on adaptation pathways and services and the interaction between values, rules and knowledge in adaptation decision making. Matt is an accredited Executive Coach.

With a PhD in Ecology and Environmental Sciences, and many years of undertaking applied research on ecosystem services, nature valuation and social-ecological systems, I am now focusing on understanding the role of values, knowledge and institutions in supporting transition pathways towards sustainability. In addition to my commitment as member of the editorial board of OneEarth and Ecology&Society, I am also Co-Editor in Chief of the ‘Ecosystems and People’ journal and Co-Chair of the Programme for Ecosystem Change and Society (PECS). She is also involved in the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)