Our alumnus Angham Daiyoub recently published the scientific paper "War and Deforestation: Using Remote Sensing and Machine Learning to Identify the War-Induced Deforestation in Syria 2010–2019 ", with results from her MEDfOR Master thesis, in the journal Land. Congratulations Angham!

https://doi.org/10.3390/land12081509

Angham, from Syria, studied at the University of Lleida (Spain) and at the Karadeniz Tecnhical University (Turkey) in the academic years 2018/2020. She is currently doing her PhD in terrestrial ecology at CREAF research centre at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

In her words: “Participating in the MEDFOR program was a transformative journey that provided me with the essential skills to thrive within the realm of academia”.