SANDRA DIAZ WON THE "PRINCESS OF ASTURIAS 2019"
CONICET researcher was recognized for its fight against climate change
through plants.
Wednesday June 5, 2019
Princess of Asturias Foundation awarded to Dr. Sandra Diaz, senior
researcher of the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research
(CONICET) by the American scientist Joanne Chory, the Princess of Asturias
Award 2019 in scientific and technological research, for their struggle
against climate change through plants.
"The work carried out by biologists Joanne Chory and Sandra Diaz,
separately, the has placed at the forefront of new research with future
outstanding implications in the fight against climate change and its
effects and the defense of biodiversity" justifies the Princess of Asturias
Foundation among the award.
The Princess of Asturias Awards are intended to recognize "scientific and
technical cultural, social and humanitarian work carried out by
individuals, institutions, group of persons or institutions in the
international arena."
Dr. Sandra Diaz is CONICET researcher at the Multidisciplinary Institute of
Plant Biology (IMBIV) and has a long history of working in the field of
plant ecology. It combines plant ecology studies with interdisciplinary
work on how different societies value and rewire biological communities and
ecosystems.
Dr. Sandra Diaz.
Diaz has played a leading role in the theoretical development and practical
implementation of the concept of functional diversity, its effects on
ecosystem properties and its social importance.
He is also Professor of Community Ecology and Ecosystems at the Faculty of
Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences of the National University of Cordoba.
He founded Core DiverSus Diversity and Sustainability, and was cofounder of
communal TRY global initiative on functional traits of plants
(wwww.try-db.org). He also co-chaired the Global Assessment of the
Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services.
He is a member of the Academies of Sciences of Argentina, EE. UU., France
and the Developing World, and honorary member of the British Society of
Ecology. He received the Cozzarelli Prize (2008), the Margalef Prize in
Ecology (2017), the Senckenberg Research Award for Nature (2019) and the
Award Gunnerus Sustainability Sciences (2019).
Moreover, the Cordovan researcher, was also mentioned by the journal
Nature, in 2018, as one of five scientists to watch (to watch) in 2019 by
co-lead the Global Report of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity
and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) it is clear that IPBES is a panel that
brings together more than 150 scientists from around the world and provides
those responsible for designing policy objective scientific assessments of
biodiversity, ecosystems and the contributions of these to mankind, and as
tools and methods to protect and use sustainably.
For more information go here.
M. Cecilia Wedemeyer - CCT CONICET Cordoba
Source: CONICET
through plants.
Wednesday June 5, 2019
Princess of Asturias Foundation awarded to Dr. Sandra Diaz, senior
researcher of the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research
(CONICET) by the American scientist Joanne Chory, the Princess of Asturias
Award 2019 in scientific and technological research, for their struggle
against climate change through plants.
"The work carried out by biologists Joanne Chory and Sandra Diaz,
separately, the has placed at the forefront of new research with future
outstanding implications in the fight against climate change and its
effects and the defense of biodiversity" justifies the Princess of Asturias
Foundation among the award.
The Princess of Asturias Awards are intended to recognize "scientific and
technical cultural, social and humanitarian work carried out by
individuals, institutions, group of persons or institutions in the
international arena."
Dr. Sandra Diaz is CONICET researcher at the Multidisciplinary Institute of
Plant Biology (IMBIV) and has a long history of working in the field of
plant ecology. It combines plant ecology studies with interdisciplinary
work on how different societies value and rewire biological communities and
ecosystems.
Dr. Sandra Diaz.
Diaz has played a leading role in the theoretical development and practical
implementation of the concept of functional diversity, its effects on
ecosystem properties and its social importance.
He is also Professor of Community Ecology and Ecosystems at the Faculty of
Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences of the National University of Cordoba.
He founded Core DiverSus Diversity and Sustainability, and was cofounder of
communal TRY global initiative on functional traits of plants
(wwww.try-db.org). He also co-chaired the Global Assessment of the
Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services.
He is a member of the Academies of Sciences of Argentina, EE. UU., France
and the Developing World, and honorary member of the British Society of
Ecology. He received the Cozzarelli Prize (2008), the Margalef Prize in
Ecology (2017), the Senckenberg Research Award for Nature (2019) and the
Award Gunnerus Sustainability Sciences (2019).
Moreover, the Cordovan researcher, was also mentioned by the journal
Nature, in 2018, as one of five scientists to watch (to watch) in 2019 by
co-lead the Global Report of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity
and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) it is clear that IPBES is a panel that
brings together more than 150 scientists from around the world and provides
those responsible for designing policy objective scientific assessments of
biodiversity, ecosystems and the contributions of these to mankind, and as
tools and methods to protect and use sustainably.
For more information go here.
M. Cecilia Wedemeyer - CCT CONICET Cordoba
Source: CONICET