Emilio is a Forest Carbon Analyst, with a master’s degree in Forest Management from Universidad de Los Andes in Venezuela where he worked between 2005 and 2013 fulfilling different roles in teaching and research. In 2019, he completed a PhD in Environmental and Forest Sciences from the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences (SEFS) of the University of Washington, USA. Emilio has built his career within the framework of research and education on the topics of forest ecology and forest management. He’s interested in facilitating the use of scientific knowledge for the practice of sustainable forest management. Between 2020 and October 2021, he worked as a postdoctoral scholar position in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management (ESPM) at University of California – Berkeley working to understand the effects of drought on the dynamics of tree communities, fuels, and regeneration in the mixed-conifer forests of the Sierra Nevada in California. As of November 2021, Emilio is part of the Global Conservation Program at The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) focusing on the analysis of forest carbon within the Intact Forests Initiative.