I am an ICREA Research Professor at CREAF (Barcelona, Spain) and Honorary Professor of Forest Science at the University of Edinburgh (UK). I work at the frontiers between terrestrial ecology, global change science and forestry applications. I am currently focussed on improving our understanding of the water relations of trees and of the impacts of droughts on the physiology of trees and forests at a range of scales. I have also explored themes such as the significance of nitrogen deposition for the carbon cycle of forests and the management impacts on forest carbon cycle. I have also worked closely with the British forestry sector on a large range of themes, including the regional modelling of growth and carbon sequestration using a combination of process-based modelling, Bayesian data assimilation and LiDaR remote sensing.