Liana O. Anderson is a biologist, with a DPhil in Geography
and the Environment from Oxford University (2006–2011) and a postdoc from the
Environmental Change Institute (ECI) at the University of Oxford (2011-2014). Currently,
she is a researcher at the National Center for Monitoring and Early Warning of
Natural Disasters (CEMADEN) in Brazil and is a professor in the postgraduate
program on Remote Sensing at the National Institute for Space Research (INPE, Brazil),
and she co-leads the Tropical Ecosystems and Environmental Science Group
(TREES) at INPE. Her research interests include monitoring forests and wildfire
risks, and climate extremes and their impacts on ecosystems and communities.