Ghermandi Andrea Ph.D

Director, Natural Resource and Environmental Research Center

Office: Jacobs Building, Room 519
Phone: 972-4-8249918
Fax -972-4-8288953 
Email: aghermand@univ.haifa.ac.il

Research Interest: Environmental Engineering; Environmental Economics; Ecosystem Services; Sustainability
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Andrea Ghermandi is a Full Professor at the University of Haifa’s School of Environmental Sciences. He is an associated editor for the journals Ecosystem Services and PeerJ – The Journal of Life & Environmental Sciences, as well as an alumnus of the Global Young Academy. He received a Ph.D. in Analysis and Governance of Sustainable Development from the University of Venice in 2008. An environmental engineer by training, his research spans over a range of fields including the valuation and mapping of ecosystem services, the use of research synthesis techniques and crowdsourced digital data in environmental studies, and the technical and economic analysis of nature-based solutions. Prof. Ghermandi contributed to high-profile international initiatives such as the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB), the UNEP/GEF Project for Ecosystem Services (ProEcoServ), the Ocean Health Index, and the Ecosystem Service Partnership. He has (co-)authored more than 70 scientific papers in international, peer-reviewed journals in the fields of environmental sciences and environmental economics. His research on the use of social media in environmental research was awarded the 2021 Strage-BGU Award for Excellence in Environmental Sciences and he has been listed among top-cited scientists in the “Science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators” since 2020.