Elisabeth
Huber-Sannwald
Professor
Instituto Potosino de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica
Elisabeth Huber-Sannwald did her masters in Biology/Botany at the Botanical Institute of the University of Innsbruck, Austria and her PhD in Range Ecology at Utah State University, Utah, U.S. She did a Postdoc at the Institute of Ecology, University of Buenos Aires as Scientific Officer of Focus 4 of the Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems (IGBP-GCTE) program. As Research Assistant, she worked at the Grassland Chair of the Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany. In 2001 she joined as Research Professor the Division of Environmental Sciences at the Instituto Potosino de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica (IPICYT), San Luis Potosi, Mexico in the area of Global Environmental Change. She is an expert in dryland ecosystem ecology with focus on diversity and functioning of plants, biocrusts and soil microorganisms and their role in ecohydrological and biogeochemical processes considering the influence of global and social changes, in particular, livestock grazing, land use change and land degradation. Over the past 10 years, she has specialized in the study of the integrity of socio-ecological systems considering ecosystem services as fundamental characteristic and basis of the resilience of dryland socio-ecological systems and the sustainable development of rural livelihoods. Her research is interdisciplinary and inter-institutional and includes a complex systems approach, field experimentation, participatory research, long-term ecological monitoring. She is currently coordinating the International Network for Sustainable Drylands and forms part of the Executive Committee of the Agadir Platform. She is currently the Chair of the Rangeland Section of the Ecological Society of America and Regional President of the Mexican Scientific Ecological Society. She is forming part of the Executive Committee of the International Network for Desertificaction ARIDnet. She has been Associate Editor of Rangeland Ecology and Management and is currently Associated Editor of Ecological Applications. She has over 50 publications in indexed journals and seven book chapters. For more information please consult http://www.ipicyt.edu.mx/curricular/ElisabethHuber-Sannwald