Ane Alencar

Ane Alencar is the Science Director at IPAM – Amazon Environmental Research Institute. She holds a degree in Geography from the Federal University of Pará (UFPA), a Master’s in Remote Sensing and GIS from Boston University, and a Ph.D. in Natural Resources Conservation from the University of Florida, where she was a NASA and U.S. National Academy of Sciences fellow. For over three decades, she has studied fire dynamics, deforestation, and forest degradation in the Amazon and Cerrado, focusing on their links to climate change. In 2018, she was recognized by Fire magazine as one of the world’s leading women in fire science. She co-leads MapBiomas’ Cerrado and Fire initiatives and has developed social technologies for environmental governance, earning recognition from Folha de S.Paulo and the Veja-se Award. Ane also serves as member on the Amazon Scientific Panel, fellow of the Fulbright Amazonia program, and one of the coordinators of the Observatório do Clima network, and was recently named one of 14 global female leaders in Machine Learning and Earth Observation by the Radiant Earth Foundation.