Sander Janssen PhD, is working as team leader Earth Informatics at Wageningen Environmental Research, and leading a team of experience researchers and software engineers in the field of integrated (spatial) modelling, remote sensing, Big Data and Knowledge systems.
Jean-François Bissonnette is assistant professor in the Department of Geography at Université Laval in Quebec City, Canada. He holds a PhD from the University of Toronto and his main areas of expertise are environmental governance, conservation initiatives and agrarian transformations. His research investigates natural resource use by different types of actors, including smallholders, large landholders, and land managers. Drawing on qualitative methods, he analyzes stakeholders’ perceptions and discourses to investigate processes of participation in natural resource management, relations between societies and ecosystems as well as issues of environmental justice. He has published over 40 articles and book chapters over the past 15 years.
Ratih is the Director of Scientific Management Collection at the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), the Republic of Indonesia, and responsible to manage national scientific depository including herbarium, animal, seed bank, xylarium, archaeological, geo–diversity, microorganisms, and botanical gardens.
Before appointed as Director, Ratih was Research Professor at BRIN. The anatomy and quality of lignocellulose materials, forensic of lignocellulose, and Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) are her scientific interests. Her team developed the automatic wood identification system AIKO-KLHK, which contains of 1,592 wood species and installed by 7K users. She is the Curator of Xylarium Bogoriense and Xylarium Indonesia (Xylarium Indonesia was newly established on 26 September 2023 in BRIN).
Ratih was born in 1980 in Jember, Indonesia. She got her Ph.D. in Wood Science from the University of Melbourne, Australia, and Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees from IPB University. More than 120 national and international publications and 20 patents and Copyrights have been produced during her career from 2007 to the present. She is a member of IAWA Council (2021-2023) based in Leiden, Netherlands.
Suryanto is researcher at the Center for Environmental Research Universitas Sebelas Maret, Indonesia. His main areas of experties are Green Economy and Sustainable Development.
Suryanto was born in 1975 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. He holds a Doctorate from Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia. He has published over 80 articles and books, and holds 4 patents over the past 10 years.