Antonio Ruano Sastre

Researcher (M)

PROGRAM / Bioeconomy, health and governance

Technical Forestry Engineer from the Polytechnic University of Madrid (2010). Master’s in Forestry Engineering from the University of Valladolid (2012). Master’s in Geomatics, Remote Sensing, and Spatial Models Applied to Forest Management from the University of Córdoba (2014). PhD in Biosanitary and Agri-Food Sciences from the University of Córdoba–INIA (2019), focused on methodologies for evaluating juvenile wood in relation to wood quality.

During his doctoral studies, he carried out research stays at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU) in Vienna, Austria, and at the Department of Forest and Wood Science at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. Responsible for data analysis, scientific article writing, and the proposal of a wood quality assessment system for the National Forest Inventory. He worked at the Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3) on the restoration of environmental services and the water cycle in the context of climate change adaptation in Mediterranean basins, and as a specialist technician at ICIFOR-INIA, CSIC, in the dendrochronology and ecophysiology department. He currently serves as deputy coordinator of the Horizon Europe SINTETIC project.