Dr.Carme Machí-Castañer is an international expert in environmental science, biological and environmental engineering, urban planning, architecture and landscape architecture. She has worked internationally to expand Green Infrastructure in extensive urbanized areas with precarious urban infrastructures and damaged fluvial landscapes. Machí-Castañer has a background in Architecture & Urban Planning (Polytechnic University of Valencia in Spain), European Master Degree in Urbanism (Polytechnic University of Catalunya, Università di Venezia and the Katholiek Universiteit of Leuven) and PhD in Environmental Science (University of São Paulo), with one-year fellow a Cornell University. She has collaborated in trans-
disciplinary groups in Spain, Morocco, Italy, Russia, Belgium, Vietnam and Brazil to identify data-driven solutions to society’s most challenging social and environmental problems and ultimately inform decision-makers. During her last years in Brazil, Machí-Castañer participated in large-scale urban projects promoted by Government, eventually supported by World Bank/privates, in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Piauí’s States, collaborating with researchers from the University of São Paulo and Cornell University (USA).
