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Professor Emilio Chuvieco is an Honorary Research Associate at the ECI. He has a PhD in Geography from the Universidad Complutense of Madrid, and a DPhil in Theology from the University of Oxford. He is Professor of Geography and Director of the Environmental Ethics chair at the University of Alcalá, Spain, where he leads the Environmental Remote Sensing Research Group.
He has received the Rei Jaume I Award for Environmental Protection in 2022, Previously, he obtained the research award of the Social Council of the University of Alcalá in 2000, the national award on forest fire research in 2004, the award as advisor of PhD dissertations in 2016, and the award on excellence research and medal distinction of University of Alcalá in 2021. He is within the 2% of most influential scientists in the Standford University ranking of the world scientists.
Visiting professor at the University of Oxford, U.C. Berkeley and Santa Barbara, Cambridge, the University of Maryland and the Canadian Remote Sensing Center. Advisor of 45 PhD dissertations. Principal investigator of 39 research projects and 25 contracts. Author of 33 books and 439 scientific papers and book chapters, It has an h-index of 75 in the Scopus database (>16,700 citations) and 96 from Google Scholar (>35,800 citations) (all data refer to October 2025). Former president of the Spanish Remote Sensing Society and the Geographic Information Technologies group of the Association of Spanish Geographers. He is the science leader of the Fire Disturbance ECV within the European Space Agency’s Climate Change Initiative Program. Science coordinador of the European project FirEUrisk. He was Co-editor in Chief of Remote Sensing of Environment from 2015 to March 2020. He has been a full member of the Spanish Academy of Sciences since October 2025.
ORCID Id: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5618-4759
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