5th International Congress on Fire in the Earth System: Humans and Nature, November 4-6, 2026

Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera
Av. Alfredo Magalhães Ramalho, 6, 1495-165 Algés

PROGRAM

Sessions

Book of Abstracts

Keynote speakers

Izak Smit

Senior Scientist, South African National Parks

Ana Bastos

Professor for Land-Atmosphere Interactions, Leipzig University

Christiaan F. Pool

Head of Forestry Department, Nelson Mandela University

José Miguel Cardoso Pereira

Forest Research Centre, School of Agriculture, University of Lisbon

Carlos DaCamara

Department of Geographic Engineering, Geophysics and Energy, University of Lisbon

Ine Vandecasteele

Climate Risk and Resilience Unit, European Environment Agency

Fábio Silva

National coordinator, Fire Analysis and Use Group, Portugal

Akli Benali

Researcher, Forest Research Centre, School of Agriculture, University of Lisbon

Andrew C. Scott

Distinguished Research Professor in Ancient and Modern Fire Systems, Royal Holloway University of London

Organizing committee

Célia Gouveia

Célia Gouveia. Earth Observation Unit, Instituto Português do Mar e Atmosfera Instituto Dom Luiz, Faculdade de Ciências Universidade de Lisboa.

Artemi Cerdà

Professor in Physical Geography, University of Valencia

Ioannis Daliakopoulos

Assistant Professor, Hellenic Mediterranean University, Greece

Scientific Committee

Akli Benali, University of Lisbon
Ana Bastos, University of Leipzig
Andrew C Scott, Royal Holloway University of London
Artemi Cerdà, Universitat de València
Biswajeet Pradhan, SMIEEE; Alexander von Humboldt Fellow
Carlos da Camara, University of Lisbon
Célia Gouveia, University of Lisbon
Elia Mario, University of Bari
Eric B Kennedy, York University
Fabio Silva, Fire Analysis and Use Group, Portugal
Hannes van Zyl, Nelson Mandela University
Heather D Alexander, Auburn University
Ine Vandecasteele, European Environment Agency
Ioannis Daliakopoulos, Hellenic Mediterranean University
Iryna Skulska, Centre for Applied Ecology, Univ. of Lisbon
Javier Rodríguez, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
Jesús Barrena, Universidad de Extremadura
Jiafu Mao, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Jose Cardoso Pereira, University of Lisbon
Manuel Pulido, Universidad de Extremadura
Marco Turco, University of Murcia
Navashni Govender, South African National Parks
Rita Durão, Instituto Português do Mar e Atmosfera
Rosa Mosquera, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
Sandy P Harrison, Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires
Saskia Deborah Keesstra, Climate Kic
Simone Morais, Polytechnic Institute of Porto
Stefan Doerr, University of Swansea
Tiaan Pool, Nelson Mandela University
José Múñoz-Rojas. University of Évora