Dr. Sandra Díaz joined the Royal Society of London

One of the oldest and most prestigious scientific institutions in the world, the Royal Society of London, has appointed Dr. Sandra Díaz as a Foreign Member.

She is a senior researcher of the National Scientific and Technical Research Council at the Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal  (IMBIV, CONICET-UNC) [Multidisciplinary Institute of Plant Biology]. For many years, she focused her work on plant ecology. Her studies are combined with interdisciplinary work on how the different societies value and reshape the communities and biological ecosystems.

Dr. Díaz has had a leading role in the theoretical development and the practical implementation of the concept of functional diversity, its effects on the ecosystem properties and its social importance.

She is also a full professor of Ecology of Communities and Ecosystems in the Faculty of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences of the National University of Córdoba. Furthermore, the scientist founded Núcleo DiverSus about Diversity and Sustainability, and was cofounder of TRY, the global communal initiative on functional characteristics of plants.

The researcher was mentioned in 2018 by Nature Journal, where she was selected as one of the five scientists to watch in 2019 for co-leading the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). It is worth mentioning that IPBES is a body that brings together more than 150 scientists from all the world and provides policy makers with objective scientific assessment on biodiversity, ecosystems and their contributions to humanity, apart from the tools and methods to protect them and make sustainable use.

She is a member of the Academis of Sciences in Argentina, the United States, France and the Developing World, and honorary member of the British Ecological Society. The scientist was awarded the Cozzarelli Prize (2008), the Margalef Prize on Ecology (2017), the Senckenberg Award for Nature Research (2019) and the Gunnerus Prize in Sustainability Sciences (2019).

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