Gabriela is an Ecoinformatician with more than 20 years of experience leading the development of research data solutions to understand the impact of climate change on ecosystem function. As Head of water@leeds, she facilitates the development of multidisciplinary partnerships involving academics and government agencies, NGOs and SME’s to find solutions for water-related issues. She has an MSc in Rural Development and Natural Resources from ECOSUR (Mexico) and a PhD in Plant Ecophysiology from the University of Sheffield (UK).
Her research interests include natural resources management, research network facilitation, climate change, tropical forests, ecoinformatics, research data management and data-driven decision making. She has worked with international networks on climate change and forest function. She has worked in Mexico, Peru, Brazil, East Africa, India and the UK.
She is the lead for the data Work package of the Citizen Science project AQuA (Actions for Quality Aquatic environments) funded by the Engaged Environment Science Programme (NERC).
Dr Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez | water@leeds