Alejandro Coca-Castro

Alejandro is an Agronomy Engineer graduated from Universidad Nacional de Colombia with a MSc. in Environmental Monitoring, Simulation Modelling (ABM/Predictive/Economic modelling) and Management at King’s College London. He has supported the Terra-i system, a pantropical deforestation monitoring initiative led by the International Center of Tropical Agriculture in collaboration with multiple international institutions, since 2011 as intern, research assistant and visiting researcher. He is currently continuing a closely work with the Terra-i project through a PhD research at King’s focused in Simulation Modelling (ABM/Predictive/Economic modelling) pan-tropical land cover and land-use trajectories of newly deforested areas under the supervision of Dr. Mark Mulligan. Alejandro’s expertise in applied GIS, Earth Observation/Remote Sensing and data mining for land change research has contributed to projects of others institutions/initiatives such as Global Canopy Programme, The World Wide Fund, The International Food Policy Research Institute and InfoAmazonia.