Ana BastosAna Bastos is leader of the Climate-ecosystem-disturbance interactions group at the Department of Biogeochemical Integration (Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry).
Her overarching scientific goal is to better understand inter-annual to long-term variability in the global carbon-cycle. To do this, her research bridges the disciplines of atmospheric science, ecology and biogeochemistry, from both observation-based and modelling perspectives.
Specific topics include land-atmosphere interactions, the role of internal climate variability and ocean-atmosphere-land teleconnections in controlling carbon-cycle dynamics, the impacts of climate extremes on ecosystem functioning and ecosystem disturbance regimes.
Ana Bastos is currently co-leading the “REgional Carbon Cycle Assessment and Processes”, phase 2 (RECCAP-2) project, which is part of the Global Carbon Project. She is also PI in the project from ESA-CCI aimed at supporting RECCAP-2 (CCI RECCAP2). Ana Bastos is also involved in several outreaching activities. She is author or co-author of more than 50 scientific papers on ISI journals.