The Professor of Forest Engineering is the first member of the University of Lleida and Agrotecnio to join this prestigious Spanish scientific institution.
Víctor Resco de Dios, Professor of Forest Engineering and Global Change at the University of Lleida (UdL) and researcher at Agrotecnio, has been appointed Corresponding Member of the Royal Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences of Spain (RAC). The appointment recognises his scientific career in the fields of forest ecology, wildfires and global change.
Founded in 1847, the Royal Academy of Sciences is one of Spain’s leading scientific institutions. Resco joins the Natural Sciences Section, becoming the first member of the University of Lleida to be part of the institution.
The appointment is part of the recent incorporation of four new members into the RAC. In addition to Víctor Resco, botanist Pilar Catalán Rodríguez, from the University of Zaragoza, and Ricardo Cao Abad, Rector of the University of A Coruña, have joined as Corresponding Members. Tomás Marqués has been appointed a Full Member.
Resco highlighted the importance of science communication and scientific advice as key pillars of the Academy’s mission: “It is one of the country’s leading scientific institutions, with deep historical roots. Our most distinguished scientists have been members of it. For me, this is a great and undeserved honour, and I hope to live up to the responsibility it entails,” he stated.
Text: UdL Press Office / Agrotecnio Communications