Stefan Doerr Email & Phone Number

Professor of Wildfire Science in the Geography Department at Swansea University and Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Wildland Fire (CSIRO Publishing on behalf of the International Association of Wildland Fire). At Swansea University since 02/1994 with visiting Senior Research Positions at USGS Denver, CSIRO Canberra, Univ. of Melbourne, Australian National Univ. and Univ. of Valencia. Director of the Centre for Wildfire Research: https://www.swansea.ac.uk/geography/research-and-impact/centre-for-wildfire-research/With 28 years experience in wildfire science, he currently focuses on fundamental and applied questions relating to the links between fire and climate change, fire effects on carbon dynamics, on soils and on water quality, ecosystem services, as well as global fire patterns, trends, risk, predictions, management, mitigation and social perceptions. Ranked 1st in the UK and 2nd globally by Expertscape amongst over 5000 experts in the topic “wildfires” https://expertscape.com/ex/wildfires175 Scopus-listed publications, Scopus citations: 10,748; H-index: 53; (data July 2022) Member of the OECD Task Force on Climate Change Adaptation. https://www.oecd.org and author of https://www.lloyds.com/news-and-insights/risk-reports/library/wildfire-a-burning-issue-for-insurers Frequently contributes to TV, Radio and online news (e.g. BBC, Al Jazeera,Euronews) and The Conversation

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  Swansea University

  Geography