Hubert Larba Balima joined our working group end of July 2024 as a Postdoc for a three months research stay (August to October 2024). During this stay, he continues his research on the effects of global change drivers on carbon pools in West African landscapes within the GreenGaDe project.

Balima Larba Hubert defended his PhD in July 2020 at the University Félix Houphouet Boigny (Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire), under the frame of WASCAL graduate program «Climate Change and Biodiversity». For his MSc degree in Botany and Plant Ecology at the University Joseph Ki-Zerbo (Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso), he worked on human-elephant conflicts and elephants impacts on woody vegetation. For his PhD thesis, he addressed the ecological responses of useful savanna tree species to land use and climate change in West Africa, using ethnobotany, tree ring analysis, carbon stock estimation and species distribution modelling. In his current position at Potsdam University, he investigates biodiversity-ecosystem services relationships and the drivers of greenhouse gas emissions and carbon storage in West African landscapes, as a member of the GreenGaDe project team.