CIFOR scientific staff profiles

Ramadhani Achdiawan

Conduct Livelihood study on Furniture Value Chain in Jepara Indonesia. Statistical support for Poverty Environment Network. Analysis support for Project on Tools for integrating Conservation and Development

Rubeta Andriani

GIS and remote sensing

Agus Andrianto

Team Member Cordaid Project; Bio-fuel plantation boom in papua, indonesia: safeguarding indigenous communities' tenure rights and access to natural resources through economically, environmentally and socially responsible development

Arild Angelsen

Yustina Artati

Chinese trade and investment in Africa: assessing and governing trade-offs to national economies, local livelihoods and forest

Riza Aryani

REDD+ Benefit Sharing, environmental global governance and sustainable development

Stibniati Atmadja

Assisting the production of REDD global architecture book due in COP14; * Potentially leading a comparative study on REDD pilot projects in Indonesia

Richard Eba’a Atyi

The role of forests in climate change adaptation and mitigation, policy framework for the management of tropical forests

Abdon Awono

Team member of FAO/SNV/ICRAF/CIFOR NTFP project, analysing the baselines information of Irvingia and Prunus africana in Cameroon and Honey, Gnetum and Safou in DRC for farmer enterprises development in Central Africa with intervention in LAMIL Guinea project, ect

Michael Balinga

Influence of age, gender and tenure on equity and benefit sharing in management of forest resources

Imam Basuki

Soil studies; Landscape assessment tool (mla) adaptation for fire management; Participatory monitoring on biodiversity in Lao - Landscape Mosaic project

Brian Belcher

Manuel Boissiere

Landscape Mosaics : Co-site Leader in Laos. Coordinator Biodiersity Monitoring in Laos. International expert Improvement of the sustainable management and utilization of non timber forest products in Cambodia (ITTO for CIRAD). Team Coordinator MLA Activities (papua, India)

Maria Brockhaus

Policy networks, policy learning, institutional and policy change, science-policy interface

Jean-Christophe Castella

Project leader for Mekong region

Paolo Cerutti

Task Leader - FLEGT, illegal logging

Carol Colfer

Peter Cronkleton

Community Forestry, Forest Tenure, Policy, Participatory methods

Ahmad Dermawan

Forest policy, forest industry, timber plantations, forest finance, trade, investment, corruption

Ida Nadia Sèdjro Djenontin

Climate change, agriculture, farming system, food security and value chain analysis/development

Félicien Kengoum Djiegni

Climate change mitigation and adaptation, forest governance

Houria Djoudi

Edmond Dounias

Amy Duchelle

Currently, her main research topic is understanding the effectiveness, efficiency, equity and co-benefits of pilot REDD+ initiatives in the Amazon

Andini Desita Ekaputri

Poverty, livelihood, and gender issues

Denis Gautier

Territorialisation processes linked to natural resource conservation, exploitation and management; links between ecosystem resilience and vulnerability of people whose livelihoods are relying on forest

David Gaveau

Role of Earth observation in formulating efficient strategies to evaluate the effectiveness of conservation interventions; equitable trade-offs between human development and conservation

Manuel Guariguata

Forest management, ecology, silviculture, ecosystem services

Davison Gumbo

Investigating the interplay between social and ecological systems and impacts on livelihoods

Hety Herawati

Forestry, climate change adaptation, climate change mitigation, ecosystem based adaptation, gender, forest fires, community based forest and fire management.

Kristell Hergoualc'h

Forestry, agroforestry, agriculture, land-use change, climate change, environmental services, Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD)

Amy Ickowitz

Development, natural resource management and health economics

Yayan Indriatmoko

Team Member - Furniture Value Chain, CSR project (FORD)

Verina Ingram

Central Africa Livelihoods program

Dian Intarini

Increasing understanding and dissemination of the challenges in setting up REDD projects on-site, as well as understanding the impacts of such projects on community livelihoods and on improvements of forest management; observing the implementation of sustainable forest mechanisms (forest certifications) and/or the implementation of certain environmental safeguards

Pamela Anne Jagger

Shijo Joseph

Climate change impact research, carbon sequestration, REDD+ and systematic conservation planning

Anitha Kamalakumari

Understanding the role of tropical forests in mitigating climate change

Markku Kanninen

Climate change adaptation and mitigation, tropical forest ecology, silviculture, forest management

Habtemariam Kassa

Coordinating Dry Forest Project Activities in Ethiopia

Heru Komarudin

Team Member of Cordaid Project on "The Expansion of Plantations in Papua, Indonesia: Safeguarding Indigenous Communities' Tenure/Resource Rights and Building Capacity for Responsible evelopment". Specific role: policy framework analysis

Kaisa Korhonen-Kurki

Governance of climate change, science–policy interface

Mrigesh Kshatriya

Climate change modelling, REDD+, dynamics of human-environmental systems, sustainable development

Sofyan Kurnianto

Assessing the hydrological processes in a catchment scale; Spatial modeling of the water balance components

Anne Larson

Larson is particularly interested in how legitimate, accountable and equitable governance institutions and authorities emerge on multiple scales, and the interrelationships of diverse state and non-state institutions, including traditional or customary institutions. She is also interested in the construction of and demand for resource rights, how communities face and respond to competing demands for resources, and the role of grassroots mobilisation and organisations in these processes.

Yves Laumonier

Landscape Mosaic

Soo Min Lee

Climat Change Mitigation, Bioenergy

Guillaume Lescuyer

Illegal logging

Patrice Levang

Livelihoods Theme Leader for landscape Mosaic Program catch-up program team for Indonesia

Nining Liswanti

Team Member - MLA (Multidisciplinary Landscape Assessment) Project

Bruno Locatelli

Cecillia Luttrell

Oversight and accountability mechanisms, political and governance assessment, benefit sharing, livelihoods and poverty impact, institutional change, rights

A. Cynthia Dewi Maharani

Philip Manalu

Team member of ACIAR Teak Project Improving Economic Outcomes for smallholders Growing teak in Agroforestry System in Indonesia

Sofi Mardiah

Forest policy, corruption, reduction in emissions from deforestation and degradation, spatial planningTeam member: Global comparative study on REDD+ for Component 1Team member: Norway project International Cooperation for Helping Countries Facing an Illegal Logging Crisis (Integrated Law Enforcement Approach Project)

Edouard Essiane Mendoula

(a) improve understanding of the domestic timber market in tropical countries(b) draw lessons from policy approaches to domestic timber and non-timber sectors for regulating them better and integrating them into the formal economy(c) analyse forest management practices associated to different forest uses(d) generate knowledge about livelihood options created by the domestic and informal sectors, and assess the trade-offs that better regulated sectors could potentially engender on livelihood security and sustainability

Moira M.M. Moeliono

My interest still focusses on ways in which the public, including local communities can participate in policy making in the field of resource use and management. This has led to interest in issues of rights, more specifically tenurial rights and the role of culture/traditions in determining rights

Daniel Murdiyarso

Climate change, carbon cycling and land use change

Samuel Assembe Mvondo

Forest governance

Esther Mwangi

Dynamics of property rights to land and natural resources, multilevel linkages in resource governance, gender, policy implementation and strategies for linking knowledge to action

Robert Nasi

Ani Adiwinata Nawir

Socio-economic and policy aspects of community forestry, particularly the advantages of small-scale forestry plantations and traditional agroforestry management compared to other investment alternatives, such as small-scale oil palm plantations. Exploring opportunities to produce carbon offset schemes and environmental services markets from smallholder planted forests.

Krystof Obidzinski

Maria Ojanen

Satria Oktarita

Climate Change, Nitrogen cycling, Biogeochemistry

Pablo Pacheco

Human dimensions of global environmental change, Trajectories of landscape and economic change, Trends and impacts of global trade and investment, Multi-scale and multi-actor forest governance

Michael Padmanaba

Forested landscape dynamic, forest ecology, invasive alien species

Christine Padoch

Elena Petkova

Climate change, forests, national implementation of international non-binding commitments, corruption

Bronwen Powell

Hari Priyadi

Climate change mitigation and Forest management

Joko Purbopuspito

Below-ground carbon stocks, root growth and turnover, soil gaseous emissions

Herry Purnomo

Value chains of forest goods and services, systems modelling, forest governance, community forestry

Louis Putzel

Economic botany of tropical timber and the connections between logging, smallholder forest management, and global markets

Daju Pradnja Resosudarmo

Aaron J. M. Russell

Adaptive collaborative management, organisational learning, ecosystem-based adaptation, action research, decentralisation, power, gender, impact assessment

Levania Santoso

Media discourse, community forestry, forest management

Masatoshi Sasaoka

Local value of endangered, protected wildlife resource use, resource management based on indigenous knowledge or social norms and its transformation, human-wildlife interrelationships formed through indigenous agriculture

Sigit Sasmito

Spatial analysis on Water Balance Components, Satellite based rainfall estimation

Claudio de Sassi

Response of tropical biomes to climate change, the role of biodiversity in climate change mitigation and poverty alleviation, co-benefits of REDD+ as a tool for conservation and sustaining rural livelihoods.

Sini Maaria Savilaakso

Bayuni Shantiko

The economics of natural resources management, sustainable development, foresight studies

Douglas Sheil

Erin Sills

REDD+, NTFPs

Anna Christina Sinaga

Forestry law and law enforcement in Indonesia, anti corruption and anti money laundering

Dennis Sonwa

Agroforestry issues related to CDM

Terence Sunderland

Domain 4 leader

William Sunderlin

Pham Thu Thuy

Human rights and the sociological and political aspects of conservation, climate change, payment for environmental services, reduction in emissions from deforestation and degradation, poverty reduction and sustainable development

Anne Marie Tiani

Conditions for climate-proof development in the Central Africa forest region.

Januarti Sinarra Tjajadi

Nugroho Adi Utomo

Team Member - CSR project Learning to be responsible: addressing social, economic, and environmental issues for responsibility of forest-based businesses

Louis Verchot

Climate Change, Carbon and Nitrogen cycling, Biogeochemistry

Meilinda Wan

Andrew Wardell

Sheila Wertz-Kanounnikoff

Forests and climate policy, Mozambique/Southern Africa

Arief Wijaya

Grace Wong

Understanding the economic, equity and environmental trade-offs in policies and decisions relating to forests and land use

Sven Wunder

Linda Yuliani