Congratulations to Raúl García Valdés who successfully (and elegantly) defended his PhD at the University of Alcala de Henares near Madrid. Raúl’s thesis–“Using demographic processes to infer tree species geographical distributions under global change”–was jointly supervised by Miguel Ángel de Zavala Gironés and Miguel Bastos Araújo and was funded through the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation’s FPI programme. The evaluation panel of the thesis included Miquel de Cáceres, Fernando Valladares, Jorge Lobo, Miguel Ángel Rodriguez and Florian Hartig. Raúl will not have much time to rest since a post doc with Xavier Morin is waiting for him at the “Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive” (CEFE-CNRS) in Montpellier. Well done and good luck!

Raúl presenting his thesis

Fernando Valladares, Jorge Lobo, Miguel Ángel Rodriguez and Florian Hartig