UNITED NATIONS BES IPBES/3/INF/15/Add.4 Distr.: General Intergovernmental Science-Policy 17 October 2014 Platform on Biodiversity and English only Ecosystem Services Plenary of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Third session Bonn, Germany, 12–17 January 2015 Item 7 (a) of the provisional agenda* Rules and procedures for the operation of the Platform: nomination and selection of members of the Multidisciplinary Expert Panel Compilation of curricula vitae of proposed members of the Multidisciplinary Expert Panel Proposed members from Latin American and Caribbean States Note by the secretariat 1. The annex to the present note, prepared by the secretariat of the Intergovernmental Science˗Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, compiles the curricula vitae of the candidates proposed for the Multidisciplinary Expert Panel, as submitted by Latin American and Caribbean States. The curricula vitae are reproduced as received, without formal editing. 2. The candidates are the following: Sandra Diaz, Argentina Maria Gabriela Palomo, Argentina Gervasio Piñeiro, Argentina Sergio Zalba, Argentina Diego Pacheco, Bolivia (Plurinational State of) Carlos Ivan Zambrana Flores, Bolivia (Plurinational State of) Mercedes Bustamante, Brazil Manuela da Cunha, Brazil Carlos Joly, Brazil Fabio Scarano, Brazil Brigitte Baptiste, Colombia Venecia Álvarez, Dominican Republic Yocasta Sistina Valenzuela Arias, Dominican Republic Edgar Pérez, Guatemala César Domínguez, Mexico Rodrigo Medellín, Mexico Daniel Piñero, Mexico Víctor Sánchez-Cordero, Mexico Marina Rosales Benites de Franco, Peru Floyd Homer, Trinidad and Tobago Susana González, Uruguay * IPBES/3/1. K1403007 181114 IPBES/3/INF/15/Add.4 Annex Compilation of curricula vitae of proposed members from Latin American and Caribbean States for the Multidisciplinary Expert Panel 2 CURRICULUM VITAE Sandra Myrna Díaz Personal details Country of birth: Argentina. Permantent work address: Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal, Casilla de Correo 495, Velez Sarsfield 299, 5000 Cordoba, Argentina. Tel. + 54 351 4331056. E-mail: [email protected] Present positions and place of employment Since 2009 Full Professor of Community and Ecosystems Ecology at the Department of Biological Diversity and Ecology, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina. Since 2013 Permanent Research Fellow (Investigador Superior, highest category in the institution) of Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) at Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal (IMBIV, CONICET-Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina). May 2012- June 2013 Visiting Professor, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, with the support of the Leverhulme Trust. 2005-2013 Permanent Research Fellow (Principal Senior Investigator) of Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) at Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal (IMBIV, CONICET-Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina). Since 2007- Director of Núcleo Diversus on Biodiversity and Sustainability. Academic employment record 2004-2009. Associate Professor of Community and Ecosystems Ecology at the Department of Biological Diversity and Ecology, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina. 1993-2004. Adjunct Professor of Community and Ecosystems Ecology at the Department of Biological Diversity and Ecology, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina. April – July 2006 – Professeur Titulaire, Department de Biologie, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France. September 2002- August 2003. Senior Research Associate and Guggenheim Fellow, Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, EE. UU. 2000-2005. Permanent Research Fellow (Independent Investigator) at IMBIV (CONICET- Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina). 1998-2000. Permanent Research Fellow (Adjunct Investigator) at IMBIV (CONICET-Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina). 1993-1998. Assistant Investigator CONICET at IMBIV (CONICET-Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina). 1 1991-1993. Postdoctoral fellow, Unit of Comparative Plant Ecology, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, UK. 1985 -1991. Postgraduate fellow of CONICET at Centro de Ecología y Recursos Naturales Renovables (CERNAR), Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, and teaching assistant at Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina. Education Biologist -1984- Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina. Doctor in Biology ( cum laude ) -1989- Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina. Main research interests Terrestrial plant community and ecosystem ecology, functional biodiversity, plant functional traits, global change ecology, links between functional biodiversity, ecosystem processes and ecosystem services, comparative ecology of plant traits. Awards 2014. Listed in “The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds 20014” produced by the international bibliometric analyst Thomson Reuters. 2013. Honorary Member of the British Ecological Society (the highest honour given by the BES) 2013. Konex Platinum Award to the most outstanding Argentine scientist in Ecology and Organismic Biology of the 2003-2013 decade. 2013. Distinguished Citizen of Córdoba Province, Argentina. 2012. Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (USA). 2012. Visiting Professorship Grant from the Leverhulme Trust, United Kigdom. 2012. Correspondent member of the National Academy of Physical and Natural Sciences (ANCEFN) of Argentina. 2011. Interciencia Award in Ecology and Biodiversity, Interciencia Association and the Government of Canada 2010. Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Argentina. 2010. Fellow of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS). 2009. Foreign Associate Member of the USA National Academy of Sciences. Section Ecology and Environmental Sciences. 2009. 2009 Sustainability Science Award of the Ecological Society of America to Ecological Society of America to the PNAS 2007 Special Feature on Land Change Science. 2008. Cozzarelli Prize of the USA National Academy of Sciences to the recently published PNAS papers of outstanding scientific excellence and originality in the Area of Applied Biological, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. 2007. Peace Nobel Prize, as a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. 2005. Zayed International Prize for the Environment, as a member of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. 2002. Guggenheim Fellow, J. S. Guggenheim Foundation, USA. 1998. Lorenzo Parodi Award of the Argentine Society of Botany. 2 Publications H Index (1990 - 2014): 39; total number of citations: 8387; Total articles published or in press: 135; Total articles with more than 100 citations: 20 Articles in scientific journals (asterisks indicate articles with >100 citations) CONTI, G., PÉREZ HARGUINDEGUY, N., QUÉTIER, F.; GORNÉ, L.D.; JAUREGUIBERRY, P.; BERTONE, G.; ENRICO, L.; CUCHIETTI, A. & DIAZ S. 2014. Large changes in carbon storage under different land-use regimes in subtropical seasonally dry forests of southern South America. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 197, 68-76. DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2014.07.025. FLORES O. GARNIER E, WRIGHT IJ, REICH PB, PIERCE S, DÍAZ S, PAKEMAN R, RUSCH GM, BERNARD-VERDIER M, TESTI B, BAKKER JP, BEKKER RM, ET AL. An evolutionary perspective on leaf economics: phylogenetics of leaf mass per area in vascular plants. Ecology and Evolution , in press. MOLES AT, PERKINS SE, LAFFAN SW, FLORES-MORENO H, AWASTHY M, TNDALL ML, SACK L, PITMAN, A, KATTGE J, AARSSEN LW, ANAND M, BAHN M, BLONDER B, CAVENDER- BARES J, CORNELISSEN JHC, CORNWELL WK, DÍAZ, S , ET AL.. 2014. Which is a better predictor of plant traits: temperature or precipitation? Journal of Vegetation Science , in press. EVANS, MR, BITHELL M, CORNELL SJ, DALL SRX., DÍAZ S., EMMOTT S, ERNANDE B, GRIMM V, HODGSON DJ, LEWIS SL, MACE GM, MORECROFT M, MOUSTAKAS A, MURPHY E, NEWBOLD T, NORRIS KJ, PETCHEY O, SMITH M, TRAVIS JMJ, BENTON TG. 2013. Predictive systems ecology. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences 280: 20131452. DÍAZ S, PURVIS A, CORNELISSEN JHC, MACE GM, DONOGHUE M, JORDANO P, EWERS R, PEARSE W. 2013. Functional traits, the phylogeny of function, and ecosystem service vulnerability. Ecology and Evolution 3: 2958–2975 (DOI 10.1002/ece3.601). PÉREZ-HARGUINDEGUY N, DÍAZ S, GARNIER E, LAVOREL S, POORTER H, JAUREGUIBERRY P, BRET-HARTE SM, CORNWELL WK, ET AL.. 2013. New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide. Australian Journal of Botany 61: 167–234 CONTI G, ENRICO L, CASANOVES F & DÍAZ S . 2013. Shrub biomass estimation in the semiarid Chaco forest: A contribution to the quantification of an underrated carbon stock. Annals of Forest Science , in press. CONTI G & DÍAZ S . 2013. Plant functional diversity and carbon storage – an empirical test in semiarid forest ecosystems. Journal of Ecology 101: 18-28. LAVOREL, S, STORKEY J, BARDGETT RD, DE BELLO F, BERG MP, LE ROUX X, MORETTI M, MULDER, C, PAKEMAN RJ, DÍAZ S, HARRINGTON R. 2013. A novel framework for linking functional diversity of plants with other trophic levels for the quantification of ecosystem services. Journal of Vegetation Science , in press. TECCO PA, URCELAY C, DÍAZ S, CABIDO M & PÉREZ-HARGUINDEGUY N. 2013. Contrasting functional trait syndromes underlay woody