The VIII PhD Students Meeting in Environment and Agriculture will include two keynote lectures.
Paulo Borges (University of Azores, CE3C)
Paulo A. V. Borges has a Ph.D. diploma in Insect Ecology from the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine – University of London (1997). Since 1988, he has been involved in biodiversity research, using arthropods as model organisms and the Macaronesian islands, particularly the Azores, as model systems. His current research is driven by three overarching objectives: i) collect long-term ecological data to investigate the processes affecting patterns of species diversity, abundance and distribution at different spatial scales; ii) use Macaronesia as a model system to investigate ecological and evolutionary mechanisms responsible for shaping island biotas; iii) identify pathways that impact oceanic indigenous assemblages under global change for conservation purposes. He is the leader of the Azorean Biodiversity Portal (http://azoresbioportal.uac.pt/pt/) a key E- Infrastructure (associated with LIFE-Watch) for promoting Azores Biodiversity to scientists, students, teachers, general public and also tourists.
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Hatem Belhouchette (Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Montpellier)
Hatem Belhouchette started his study Crop Production System at the National Institute of Agronomy-Tunisia in 1991. In 1995 Hatem graduated with a major in Crop production System and minors in Farm Economics. From 1996 to 1999 he realized, on irrigation cropping system in Mediterranean regions, a Master of Science in IAM-Bari. In 2000, He graduated with a Master degree from INA-Paris-Grignon, and then He started his PhD study on Cropping System sustainability by using bio-economic approach associated to GIS system in Northern Tunisia. In 2004 he received his PhD from Montpellier SupAgro. In 2003, he has been appointed at INRA Montpellier and then since 2010 at IAM-Montpellier Institute as a professor and researcher in Agricultural Production Systems. His main expertise and interest is the development of operational methods for the assessment, exploration and design of agricultural production systems, both at field, farm and regional levels. He is presently coordinating research network that aims at the development of a system for agro-economic and environmental modeling. He ran several national and international research projects, and supervises several Master and PhDs projects mainly on farming resilience analysis under climate change and market uncertainty topics. He is currently associate professor-researcher in the ABSys.
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