Farid Dahdouh-Guebas works for the Free University of Brussels (ULB and VUB) and has conducted research on mangroves in about 20 countries since the beginning of the 1990s. He published nearly 200 peer-reviewed papers, guided 26 PhD students and >160 MSc Students and was awarded 8 international scientific awards for his research. According to Web of Science he is the second-most productive mangrove researcher in general and the first when dealing with mangrove ethnobiology and socio-ecology, and according to Stanford University he ranks among the top 2% scientists in the world. He is also the Founding and Managing Director of TROPIMUNDO, a master programme that awards full scholarships to students from many developing countries to study tropical biodiversity and ecosystems www.tropimundo.eu.
Farid Dahdouh-Guebas
