Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Renewable Natural Resources at the University of Chile. Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her research focuses on socio-natural disaster management, adaptation and transformation to climate change, and art for climate action. She was a lead author of the Special Report “Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation” (SREX) and the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and an editor of the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) of the IPCC.

Email: paldunce@uchile.cl | ORC ID: 0000-0002-1159-9333  |  RESEARCH GATE

Professor at the Institute of Conservation, Biodiversity, and Territory at the Austral University of Chile. Biologist from the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso and Ph.D. in Forest Sciences from the Austral University of Chile. His research lines encompass paleoclimatology, dendrochronology, the study of water resource variability on multi-centennial scales, climate change detection, and global change ecology, emphasizing mountain ecosystems. He actively participates in the Chile-Argentina binational research network of Dendrochronology Laboratories, created under the auspices of the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI).

Email: duncanchristieb@gmail.com  | ORC ID: 0000-0003-2540-0986  |  RESEARCH GATE | SCHOLAR GOOGLE

Associate Professor at the Institute of Geography of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. Physicist with a Ph.D. in Climate Physics from the University of Bern, Switzerland. His research involves studying glacier dynamics and their response to climate change, particularly in the Andean region. He also investigates the impacts of climate variability on water resources and the role of atmospheric aerosols and their influence on biogeochemical cycles. His interdisciplinary approach often includes collaborations with ecology, geology, mathematics, and environmental sciences experts to address urgent climate-related issues.

Email:lambert@uc.cl | ORC ID: 0000-0002-2192-024X  |  RESEARCH GATE | SCHOLAR GOOGLE

Professor at the Institute of Geography of the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso. He holds a Master of Science in Forest Resources and a Ph.D. in Forest Sciences from the Austral University of Chile. His research areas include dendrochronology, climate change, forest ecology, and pollution studies. Some of his main motivations are to improve the understanding of changes in water availability and air quality associated with global change and to promote the development of informed and sustainable natural resource management policies.

Email: arimunoz82@gmail.com  | ORC ID: 0000-0002-1719-4900  |  RESEARCH GATE | SCHOLAR GOOGLE

Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Works Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering and Sciences, University of La Frontera. He holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Trento, Italy. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Community. His current research lines include the use of gridded data for drought monitoring and hydrological modeling at various spatial and temporal scales, development of open-source software for hydrometeorological data management and analysis; global optimization and sensitivity analysis of hydrological models, and analysis of extreme precipitation events and basin response to such events. Currently, he is a member of ANID’s Earth Sciences Evaluation Group and participates in various research projects related to assessing global change impacts on the hydrological response of basins.

Email: mauricio.zambrano@ufrontera.cl | ORC ID: 0000-0002-9536-643X  |  RESEARCH GATE | SCHOLAR GOOGLE

Academic at the Faculty of Government, University of Chile. She holds a master’s in Social Science Research Methods and a Ph.D. in Science and Technology Policy from the University of Sussex, United Kingdom. A specialist in science and technology policy, her research focuses on the role of science in climate governance.

Email: cecilia.ibarrachile@gmail.com | ORC ID: 0000-0003-1290-9281 | RESEARCH GATE

Academic at the Faculty of Engineering and Sciences, Adolfo Ibáñez University, Chile. He is an agronomist engineer from the University of Chile, holds a Master of Sciences specializing in Mountain Ecosystem Functioning from Montpellier SupAGRO, France, and a Ph.D. in Agronomic Sciences, with a mention in Continental Waters and Society from the same institution. His main research area is the study of spatial issues in natural and cultivated landscapes. Among them, ecosystems’ structural and functional properties stand out, which he investigates using remote sensing and empirical and mechanistic modeling methods.

Email: m.galleguillos@uai.cl | ORC ID: 0000-0003-4617-0980  |  RESEARCH GATE | SCHOLAR

Professor Emeritus of the Faculty of Forest Sciences and Natural Resources at the Austral University of Chile. He has dedicated his academic life and research to the ecology of native forests, dendrochronology, climate change, and the study of ecosystem services in Chile. His commitment to this line of work has been as principal investigator for the Forecos scientific nucleus and as president of the Forecos foundation, leading and collaborating with the integration of activities concerning ecosystem services. He has participated in public and private advisory councils and forums, which determined the incorporation of his studies and proposals in the Native Forest Law, approved in 2008, and other regulations and rules for forest management and conservation.

Email: antoniolara@uach.cl | ORC ID: 0000-0003-4998-4584  |  RESEARCH GATE | SCHOLAR GOOGLE

He holds a degree in Renewable Natural Resources Engineering from the University of Chile and his Ph.D. in Forest Ecosystems and Natural Resources from Austral University. His research areas are landscape ecology, the application of remote sensing in ecology, and native forest monitoring. He is currently also a principal researcher in the Department of Forest Sciences at the University of La Frontera.

Email: mirandac.alejandro@gmail.com | ORC ID: 0000-0002-8211-0179 | RESEARCH GATE | SCHOLAR GOOGLE

Forest Engineer from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. She obtained her Master’s in Geography from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States, and her Ph.D. in Geography and Environment from the University of Oxford, United Kingdom. Her study areas are climate change’s impacts on native forests, their ecology, and conservation. Her current research focuses primarily on the mechanisms and environmental factors that lead to the decline of Nothofagus forests due to droughts and carbon and water cycles in Alerce forests. She is a researcher at the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at the University of La Frontera.

Email: chiourrutia@gmail.com | ORC ID: 0000-0002-3548-4813 | SCHOLAR GOOGLE

Assistant Professor in the Department of Rural Management and Innovation at the University of Chile. He holds a degree in Economics from the Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milan, Italy, and a Master’s in Systemic Analysis applied to Society from the University of Chile. He obtained his Ph.D. in Political Processes and Institutions from Adolfo Ibáñez University, Chile. His interests concern climate change, sustainable development, inclusion, and inequality. He has experience designing and applying social surveys, coordinating teams, and conducting qualitative and quantitative research projects.

Email: mbilli@alumnos.uai.cl | ORC ID: 0000-0003-3161-6468 | RESEARCH GATE | SCHOLAR GOOGLE

Associate Professor in the Department of Geophysics at the University of Chile. He is a Chemical Civil Engineer with a Master’s in Geophysics with a mention in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Chile. He holds a Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Sciences and Technologies of Lille, France. His main line of research is the construction of anthropogenic emission inventories and the application of numerical pollutant transport models to study the evolution of the atmosphere’s chemical composition at urban and regional scales.

Email: nhuneeus@uchile.cl | ORC ID: 0000-0002-6214-5518  |  RESEARCH GATE | SCHOLAR GOOGLE

Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Chile. She holds a Master’s in Environmental Management and Planning from the same institution and a Ph.D. in Geography from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. Her research has mainly focused on the study of climate in urban areas.

Email: pamelasmit@uchilefau.cl | RESEARCH GATE | SCHOLAR GOOGLE

Full-time Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Department of Social Work at the University of Chile. She is a Social Anthropologist and holds a Master’s in Anthropology and Development from the same institution and a Ph.D. in Sociology from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and in the Environment and Society Program from the Rachel Carson Center, Germany. Expert in systems theory. Her research focuses on the relationship between the environment and society, especially in terms of water vulnerability, energy transitions, inter and transdisciplinarity, governance, and resilience to climate change. Currently, she is the Innovation Director at the University of Chile and a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI).

Email: anahiurquiza@u.uchile.cl | ORC ID: 0000-0001-6901-0846  |  RESEARCH GATE | SCHOLAR GOOGLE

Email: gazocarde@uchile.cl | ORC ID: 0000-0002-8282-1122 | RESEARCH GATE | SCHOLAR GOOGLE

Full Professor and Researcher at the Institute of History and Social Sciences at the Austral University of Chile. He is an Agricultural Engineer from the Austral University of Chile. He holds a Ph.D. in Development Sociology from Wageningen University and a Master of Arts in Social Studies of Science and Technology from the Universities of Roskilde and the Basque Country. He leads the Fondecyt Research Project 1241492, “The Pluriverses of Conservation in Southern Austral Chile,” and is a principal investigator at the FONDAP Research Center for High Latitude Marine Ecosystem Dynamics (IDEAL).

Email: gblanco@uach.cl | ORC ID: 0000-0002-4980-3424  |  RESEARCH GATE | SCHOLAR GOOGLE

Academic at the Faculty of Agronomic Sciences, University of Chile. She holds a degree in Natural Resources Engineering and a Master’s in Management and Public Policy from the same institution. She has a Ph.D. in Geography and Policy Studies from King’s College London, United Kingdom. She has experience as a researcher and consultant, working with national and international teams. Her research has focused on knowledge co-production, the science-policy-society interface, and governance in climate change adaptation and resilience, water, glaciers, and energy. She was a contributing author to the IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate.

Email:roborquez@gmail.com | ORC ID: 0000-0002-6389-0800 | RESEARCH GATE | SCHOLAR GOOGLE

She is an academic at the School of Ocean Engineering at the University of Valparaíso. She holds a Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences, with a mention in Fluid Dynamics, from the University of Chile. Her research areas are ocean-atmosphere interaction, eastern boundary dynamics, climate change, and wave climate.

Email:catalina.aguirre@uv.cl | ORC ID: 0000-0002-9883-514X | RESEARCH GATE | SCHOLAR GOOGLE

Adjunct Professor in the Department of Meteorology at the University of Valparaíso. He holds a Master’s and Ph.D. in Earth System Sciences from Istanbul Technical University, Turkey. He is a climatologist interested in climate dynamics, extreme weather events, and atmospheric teleconnections. His academic and research background has mainly focused on regional and large-scale climate variability in the eastern Mediterranean region, western South America, and Antarctica.

Email: deniboz@gmail.com | ORC ID: 0000-0003-1021-8241 | RESEARCH GATE | SCHOLAR GOOGLE

She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Oceanography at the University of Concepción, where she obtained her Ph.D. in Oceanography. Her research currently focuses on understanding the biogeochemical processes involved in greenhouse gas cycles. She has constructed and reported one of the world’s first marine series of nitrous oxide and methane. Her results help to understand the process that explains the temporal variability (monthly to interannual) of nitrous oxide fluxes across the marine water interface in coastal areas.

Email: laura.farias@udec.cl  | ORC ID: 0000-0002-9479-1557 | RESEARCH GATE | SCHOLAR GOOGLE

He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geophysics at the University of Chile. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States. His main interests lie in studying climate dynamics, particularly the mutual interaction between clouds, precipitation, water vapor, and radiation. He also works on meteorological instrumentation activities, developing instruments and observational platforms that allow for more flexible and precise observations of the atmosphere.

Email: ronda@dgf.uchile.cl | ORC ID: 0000-0002-7440-7810 | RESEARCH GATE | SCHOLAR GOOGLE