Philippe Rozenberg is a senior researcher at INRAE Orléans, specializing in forest ecosystem adaptation to climate change. His work focuses on dendroecology, studying tree growth rings to understand trees’ historical responses to environmental changes. He also analyses phenotypic plasticity, examining how individuals adapt to environmental fluctuations, and uses population evolution through natural selection.

My research focuses on forest ecology and ecophysiology, and in particular on modelling the responses of plants to multiple environmental factors and predicting the phenological adaptation of trees to climate changes. Investigations include long-lasting observations in permanent plots across wide geographical ranges, manipulated experiments in nature, assisted migration of ecotypes, and experimental designs under controlled conditions.

Carolina Pometti obtained her Doctorate in Biology from the University of Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires, Argentina) in 2009. She made her postdoc during one year in the same institution. In 2011, she was incorporated to the career of the scientific researcher in the CONICET. She is also a teacher assistant in the Ecology, Genetics and Evolution department of the Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, since 2003. Her research activity is centered on genetic populations of woody species by means of molecular and morphological markers.

Dr Rebecca Jordan is a Research Scientist at Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO. She is fascinated by how evolution and landscapes shape genetic variation within plants and how this knowledge can support forest ecosystem management to enhance adaptability now and into a changing future.

Patrick Lenz is research scientist in forest genetics at the Canadian Wood Fibre Centre of Natural Resources Canada. His current research focusses on the development of genomic tree breeding tools to speed up the selection of planting stock with improved growth, wood quality and resilience in the context of climate change. Some of his top priorities include the research on resistance traits to climate anomalies to better understand their role in adaptation and breeding opportunities.

Anne Sophie Sergent obtained her PhD in forest biology at Val de Loire University – France - in 2011 before joining the National Scientific and Technical Research Council CONICET - Argentina. Her research activities are conducted within the ecology, ecophysiology, and wood laboratory (LEEMA) of IFAB, UEDD INTA-CONICET in Bariloche. Her research interests are forest tree ecophysiology and dendro-ecology, focusing on the relationships between wood structure, growth rate, and physiological mechanisms involved in drought resistance.