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Meet our team

We are an interdisciplinary group of researchers committed to improving forest fire management in Chile and the world. We address this challenging global problem through the development of quantitative research at the highest level and the development of technological tools to support decision making. We stand out for the use of the most advanced analytical tools in the field of forest fires, thanks to the different disciplines that are integrated in our team.

Director

Andrés Weintraub

Subdirector

Jaime Carrasco

Principal investigators

Miguel Castillo
Rafael Epstein
Horacio Gilabert
Fulgencio Lisón
Alejandro Miranda

Associated investigators

Fernando Badilla
Tatiana Castillo
Felipe De la Barra
Carolina Espinoza Infante
Rodrigo Mahaluf
Camilo Matus
Lucas Murray
David Palacios
Felipe Ulloa
Matias Vilches

Collaborating investigators

Sebastián Dávila
René Garreaud
Sebastián Maldonado
Franco Quezada
Carla Vairetti
Eduardo Álvarez

International collaborators

Jordi Garcia-Gonzalo
José Ramón González
Bibiana Granda Chico
Blas Mola
María Teresa Ortuño
Begoña Vitoriano

Alliances

In order to contribute to national and international decision making, we have managed to strengthen ties with different institutions and centers. We have worked with them in several projects, as well as we have contributed mutually in the generation of data necessary to continue advancing in forest fire research.