Hector Camargo Alvarez

I did my bachelor and master degree in agricultural sciences in Colombia (Universidad Nacional de Colombia) and USA (Washington State University), respectively. For my PhD (University of Birmingham, UK) I focused my research in large scale vegetation dynamical modelling, specifically LPJ-GUESS where I worked improving crop simulations but also evaluating the cropland relationships with legacies of previous pastures and natural vegetation covers.

I joined the Global Land Ecosystem Modelling group of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in January 2024 with a postdoctoral Alexander von Humboldt fellowship. My interest research at KIT is to evaluate the effect of different climate and environmental pressures on forests and agroecosystems and assesing management activities to mitigate and adapt to those pressures.

Email: hector.alvarez@kit.edu