JIMENEZ RODRIGUEZ Cesar

About

The main inspiration for my research lies in the natural ecosystems. Since early in my youth, the tropical forests and rushing rivers that surrounded me in Costa Rica sparked my curiosity, fuelled my craving for exploration, and fed my need to understand how these ecosystems function. Hence, I placed natural ecosystems at the core of my research and professional activities, aiming to conserve them by promoting the dissemination of information across all levels of society. Since I started working with numerical models, I have found a strong complementarity between field data and the models in explaining how harsher environmental conditions drive and affect natural ecosystems. It is here that I found my research niche, exploiting the vast diversity of field data and models, and using them in unconventional ways to disentangle the main question: how these ecosystems work.

Skills and expertise

• Ecosystem Modeling
• Forest Ecology
• Eco-Hydrology

Projects

• FORLUX: Health, adaptation and resilience of forests in the context of climate change
• CAPACITY: ClimAte and Plant hydrAulics Controls on drought predIction uncertainty in a new-generation Terrestrial sYstem model
• CHAPEL: High-resolution climate change projections for Luxembourg
• DryVineyard: Viticultural management in Luxembourg under increasingly drier summer conditions
• VinoManAOP2: Viticultural management in the ‘Appellation d'origine protégée (AOP) - Moselle Luxembourgeoise’ under changing climatic conditions