Dear Colleagues,
As the Editor-in-Chief of Forests, it is my great pleasure to announce the winners of the 2021 Best PhD Thesis Award. This prize has been granted to two PhD students who have produced a highly anticipated academic thesis.
The winners are:
“Characterizing Tree Communities in Space and Time Using Point Clouds” By Tuomas Yrttimaa, School of Forest Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, Finland
“Women in Forest Sector Leadership: A Multi-country Study” By Pipiet Larasatie, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA
Each winner will receive CHF 500, a certificate and the opportunity to publish a paper with a 50% discount in Forests in 2023.
On behalf of the evaluation committee, I congratulate the winners on their accomplishments. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the nominated research groups for their contributions to Forests and the Award Committee for their efforts in the voting process.
Prof. Dr. Timothy A. Martin
Editor-in-Chief, Forests
Forests 2021 Best PhD Thesis Award
Winner
Rodrigo Balaguer-Romano
National Distance Education University (UNED), Madrid, Spain
Astra Zaluma
LSFRI, Salaspils, Latvia
Award Committee
Dr. Giacomo Gerosa
Chairman
Catholic University of Brescia
Prof. Dr. Zeki Candan
Istanbul University
Prof. Giorgos Mallinis
Laboratory of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, School of Rural & Surveying Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Winner
Eun-Suk Jang
Department of Housing Environmental Design, Jeonbuk National University, Korea
Dr. Elena Larysch
Forest Growth and Dendroecology, University of Freiburg, Germany
Award Committee
Dr. Cate Macinnis-Ng
Chairman
University of Auckland
Prof. XingKai XU
State Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Boundary Layer Physics and Atmospheric Chemistry, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Prof. Dr. Zeki Candan
Istanbul University
Winner
Tuomas Yrttimaa
School of Forest Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, Finland
Pipiet Larasatie
Oregon State University, USA
Award Committee
Dr. Timothy A. Martin
Chairman
University of Florida
Dr. Cate Macinnis-Ng
University of Auckland
Prof. Young-Seuk Park
Kyung Hee University
