Keynotes 2026

Flavio Marzialetti

He is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Agricultural Sciences at the University of Sassari, in collaboration with the National Biodiversity Future Centre (Italy). His research focuses on the application of remote sensing in spatial ecology and vegetation science, including species distribution modeling (native and non-native), vegetation dynamics under human and climate pressures, and the estimation of eco-physiological and structural plant traits.

He obtained his Master’s degree from Roma Tre University and his PhD from the University of Molise, where he used multispectral, RGB, UAV, and satellite data to analyze spatial and temporal changes in coastal dune ecosystems and invasive plant spread. He has held postdoctoral positions in international Italy–Israel and Italy–Argentina projects, contributing to invasive species monitoring in coastal systems and to automated urban expansion mapping using SAR data.

Flavio Marzialetti

Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Sassari, Italy; National Biodiversity Future Centre (NBFC), Italy.

Pablo González

I hold a Master’s degree in Environmental Sciences (University of Málaga, 2006) and specialized in GIS, forestry, and natural resource management through postgraduate training in Spain, Finland, and the Netherlands. From 2009 to 2011, I worked as a GIS technician at the Universities of Rennes and Granada, applying remote sensing to crop and forest monitoring. I completed my PhD in 2015 at the Doñana Biological Station, focusing on plant invasions and advanced ecological modeling.

Between 2016 and 2019, I was a senior researcher at CABI (UK), working on invasive species and agricultural pests, and co-leading international projects in China and Africa on pest risk modeling using Earth observation. Since 2019, I have been a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Córdoba, where I currently coordinate an international research consultancy with CABI and Mondelez International on cocoa agroforestry modeling, alongside teaching and research on invasive pests in forest and agricultural systems.

Pablo González

Departamento ingeniería forestal, Universidad de Córdoba
Spain.

Noa Núñez

She obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Biology at the University of Vigo (Spain) and subsequently completed a Master’s degree in Advanced Biotechnology. In 2022, she began a PhD at the same university to continue the research line developed in her undergraduate thesis, supported by a competitive national FPU fellowship.
One of the main objectives of her PhD thesis is to understand the changes that occur in areas where this plant has been manually removed, comparing these areas with nearby native and invaded sites. The aim is to assess whether plant–invertebrate herbivore, plant–plant, or plant–soil interactions improve or return to their previous (invaded) state five years after removal. The second objective is to analyze the ecophysiological adaptations of different genetic groups of Carpobrotus under biotic stress (caused by generalist and specialist herbivores) and abiotic stress (soil depth and lack of rooting).
In addition, she works as a university teaching assistant and actively participates in science outreach initiatives, including the Renatur_Outes project.

Noa Núñez González

Departamento de Bioloxía Vexetal e Ciencia do Solo. Universidade de Vigo - Spain

Theresa Henke

In 2016 I graduated with a B.Sc. degree in biology, with a focus
on marine biology, from the University of Bremen in Germany. In the
same year I moved to Iceland to start my Master´s degree in Marine and Coastal Management at the University Centre of the Westfjords in
Isafjördur, Iceland from which I graduated in 2018. My thesis focused on the ecological impacts of an alien fish species in Iceland. In October 2019, I began my PhD studies at the University of Iceland
continuing research on the same alien species but with an increasingly interdisciplinary perspective; successfully earning my doctorate in January 2025. Since September 2024, I have been working as a postdoc in the IRIS group (ww.iriseeza.com) at EEZA-CSIC in Almería, Spain.
Here, my work focusses on the social dimensions of biological
invasions, applying a variety of methodologies including iEcology and conservation culturomics.

Theresa Henke

Estación Experimental de Zonas Áridas (EEZA) - Consejo
Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) - Spain