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Research Professor of the National Research Council of Spain (CSIC) at CREAF (Center for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications).
Director of the Global Ecology Unit CREAF-CSIC-UB-UAB in CREAF -Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona,
Lab web: http://globalecology.creaf.cat/
Prof. Peñuelas is highly cited scientist in ecology/environment and in plant and animal sciences (Clarivate). (h index: 207 GS, i10 index: 1349 and ca. 199.000 citations GS)
Recent subjects of study: global ecology, global change, climate change, atmospheric pollution, biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds emissions, remote sensing, plant ecophysiology, and functioning and structure of terrestrial plants and ecosystems, chemical ecology, ecometabolomics, macroecology, biogeochemistry, environmental sustainability, food security.
Some of the most outstanding results are the following ones: discovery of ecophysiological mechanisms linked to the carbon and oxygen use that help to explain species distribution; the development of increasingly used remote sensing techniques to assess plant and ecosystem functioning; the report of current evidences of global change, climate change, and air pollution interactions with structure and functioning of terrestrial ecosystems; the study of the biochemistry, function and effects of the emissions of the Volatile Organic Compounds by plants and ecosystems, the introduction of metabolomics in field ecology, as well as the development of policies for environmental protection and sustainable development.
Professor J. Peñuelas has published 6 books on ecology, more than 1.800 papers in scientific journals and books (more than 1.480 in journals of the Science Citation Index; 152 in Nature journals, 18in Science-Science Advances, 17 in PNAS, 11 in National Science Review and Science Bulletin, 21 in Trends Plant Sci and 11 in Trends Ecol Evol, as well as in highest profile scientific journals in ecology and env sciences: 114 in Glob Change Bioly, 35 in Global Ecol Biogeogr, 11 in Ecol Letters; remote sensing: 20 in Remote Sens Environ and plant biology – 47 in New Phytol), 300 in other journals and chapters of books, and more than 270 articles on popular science in Catalan and Spanish newspapers (La Vanguardia, Avui, El País, El Temps..). It is also outstanding his labour popularizing science issues at international and national scale
He has been PI or scientific coordinator of several European Union, Spanish and Catalan projects financed by public research agencies and by private funding. Among them he has been awarded with ERC-Synergy 2014-2020 grant, his project has been elected between the highlighted 15 examples of how ERC researchers have truly transformed science (among 10,000 ERC grantees). He has supervised 64 PhD, 51 masters, and 64 post-docs
He is currently member of the editorial board of Ecology Letters, Global Change Biology, Global Ecology and Biogeography, Trends in Plant Science, New Phytologist, Remote Sensing of the Environment, Atmospheric Pollution Research, Journal of Botany and Plant Ecology and Diversity and Trees. He collaborates in the reviewing of articles in many scientific journals, some of them of great prestige such as, Science, Nature, Nature Geoscience, Nature Climate Change, Nature Communications, Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences (USA), Trends in Ecology and Evolution, among many others. He also evaluates scientific projects for several international and national programmes. He is member of several academies and international and national scientific associations
Prof. Peñuelas was Titular Professor of Ecology in the University of Barcelona until 1990 and is involved on seminars and postgraduate courses in many of the main international Universities. He has been visiting professor or visiting scientist in Los Angeles, Washington, , Paris, Tokyo, Phoenix, Boulder, Hawaii, Danah Latu, Canberra, Beijing, Berkeley, Stanford, Oxford, Cambridge.
He has received several international awards-prizes (Conde de Barcelona 1990, NASA 1993, Science Ministry of Japan 1998, Premi Nacional de Recerca de Catalunya 2010, Premio Rey Jaime I Protection of Nature 2015, Doctor Honoris Causa by the Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, Estonia (2016), adoptive song of Figueres 2016, Premi Ramon Margalef d’Ecologia, 2016; Chinese Academy of Sciences PIFI Distinguished Scientist (2018), Marsh Award for Climate Change Research Prize for the British Ecological Society (2018), Nominated among the four hundred most influential scientists in all fields and among the ten most influential scientists in ecological and environmental sciences (Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford – METRICS) 2019, Elected American Geophysical Union 2020 Fellow for his exceptional contributions in the Earth and space sciences, Alejandro Malaspina Prize 2023...)
