Mathew Tello is a MSc. student in the Erasmus Mundus Master in Global Forestry (GLOFOR) program, jointly coordinated by the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany and AgroParisTech Montpellier, France.
He holds a BSc. in Ecosystems Engineering from Ikiam Amazon Regional University, Ecuador. His academic journey includes ecological fieldwork in the Amazon tropical rainforest and in agroforestry systems in Nepal.
Mathew Tello will be analyzing the potential inclusion of Other Wooded Lands (OWLs) in the EU Deforestation Regulation through remote sensing and map accuracy assessment, with Brazil's Cerrado biome as a case study. This research is part of his MSc. thesis and evaluates both the policy feasibility and ecological consequences of expanding EUDR framework.
The thesis works are supervised by colleagues from AgroParisTech and the GEOS-EUDR project team. Contact person at the institute is Melvin Lippe.
His research interests integrate geospatial analysis, statistical modeling, and ecological fieldwork to address deforestation governance, sustainable land use, and ecosystem services. He conducted long-term biodiversity surveys in Ecuadorian Amazon forests (2016–2020), establishing permanent plots and developing demographic models for an important Amazon palm tree species (Mauritia flexuosa).
Mathew Tello - new trainee
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