Cathelijne Stoof is specialized in pyrogeography - the interdisciplinary study of the distribution and functioning of wildland fire. She is the national delegate of The Netherlands to the EU Expert Group of Forest Fires and coordinator of the Innovative Training Network PyroLife, that trains 15 early career researchers to become our new generation of integrated fire management experts. PyroLife fosters knowledge transfer between countries, risks and people. It thereby combines how the North solves community problems with fire knowledge from the European South, with a strong focus on diversity in terms of interdisciplinarity, science-practice links, geography and gender.

Researcher at the Center for Applied Ecology Professor Baeta Neves (CEABN), Instituto Superior de Agronomia (ISA), University of Lisbon and Researcher at the Associated Laboratory InBIO (Research Network on Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology), being currently the coordinator at CEABN of the Research Area Agro-environmental Education and Knowledge Dissemination Forest Engineer by the Higher Institute of Agronomy has the Diploma of Advanced Studies in Environmental Education and the PhD in Education from the University of Santiago de Compostela. Since 2000, she coordinates the CEABN / ISA environmental education program. Coordinated the "Forests Environmental Education Manual" edited by the National Forest Authority, co-author the FAO / UN Handbook on "Cape Verde Forests: A Good to Protect", and other editions for the general public such as agendas CTT for the international years for biodiversity and forests. In 2007/8 she was an FAO / UN consultant in Cape Verde in the area of ​​forest fire prevention. National and international consultant in the area of ​​forests, communities, and rural fires, for institutions such as FAO/UN, ICNF, AGIF, among others. She has participated in several European research projects both in the area of ​​risk and forest fires and education for the forest. In recent years, her main research topics have been the social dimension of the forest and forest fires. Member of the bodies of the Portuguese Association of Environmental Education, the Portuguese Society of Forestry Sciences and FSC Portugal.

Forest engineer and Msc in Wildfire Risk Management. Head of the Forest Policy and Risk Governance department at Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia (CTFC). His main R+D activities deals with inclusive wildfire risk management, environmental governance and communication and strategic forest planning, looking into the evolving forest and society relationship. He is currently leading of fire-smart policy coherence and planning task at FIRE RES and the Working Group Environment/Ecology in Firelogue, two EU H2020 projects funded by H2020 Research and Innovation Programme (Green Deal Call)