Biography

David Ramirez is an ecologist working as a Senior Scientist leader of the Climate Change Mitigation/Resilience & Soil Health Division, which belongs to the Regenerative Agriculture Science Goal at CIP. He received the 2015 Antunez de Mayolo Merit Award for Research in Science from the Peruvian Academy of Science and the Council of Science, Technology, and Technological Innovation. David has teaching experience at Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina (Peru), Universidad de Castilla Mancha (Spain), and Gansu University (China). With 50 publications in impact factor journals (including co-authorship in articles published in Science and Nature journals), his research focuses on: – Irrigation management to enable significant water savings without reductions in tuber yields, – Leaf traits that highlight plant functional responses to drought, – Crop resilience to help solve increasing agricultural water constraints in the face of growing food demand, and how vegetation structure interacts with multifunctional ecosystem processes, – low carbon emission agriculture in potato-based systems. He holds a PhD in “Restoration of Ecosystems and their Biological Diversity” from the University of Alicante, Spain, and a Biologist degree from the Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina, Peru.