SEMINAR

DATE: 11TH JULY, 2019

TIME:   2.30 PM

VENUE: ICCA LECTURE ROOM ONE

SPEAKER: Juliana PROSPERI

TOPIC: MIKOKO-REHABILITATION OF MANGROVES AT LAMU

BIO:  Juliana PROSPERI

Scientist, Centre de Coopération Internationale

en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD) - UMR AMAP

CIRAD c/o ICRAF  - Kenya Forest Service

United Nations Avenue, Gigiri

PO Box 30677 - 00100 Nairobi - KENYA

Tél: +254 7 68 70 93 88

e-mail: juliana.prosperi@cirad.fr

Chronological career

2009    Senior Botanist & applied informatics at CIRAD.

2006    Research engineer at CIRAD. Appointed in Laos for 3 years at the National University.

2004    Research engineer at CIRAD. Montpellier, France.

2002    Independent researcher. France.

2001    Post-Doc Research Forest Ecology, French Institute of Pondicherry (IFP), India.

1998    PhD Evolution & Tropical Ecology, University of Montpellier II, France. Subject: Architectural development of woody hemi-epiphytes. An "opportunistic" growth strategy in the canopy.

1990    Master’s degree in Sciences, Biology & Tropical Botany, University of Montpellier II, France.

1988    Master’s degree in Integrated Land Management. UNESCO, Paris, Toulouse and Montpellier Universities, France.

Synthesis. I have been working at CIRAD at UMR AMAP since 2004 as a botanist. My research concerns the study of tropical forest flora with a particular interest for mangrove forests and the architecture of different groups of plants, especially those of hemi-epiphytes. I develop applications for the identification of plants (IDAO) by considering the morphological characteristics of the whole plant and not only those of flowers. I coordinate and carry out field missions in tropical forests (India, Laos, Gabon, Cameroon, Congo, French Guyana, Venezuela) and in mangroves (India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Costa Rica). I obtained different financings for the realization of my studies in tropical environment. I taught at the University of Montpellier, and I have a preference to transmit my know-how in the field of botany to students from the tropics and in the field.

ALL ARE WELCOME