Dr. Marjana Westergren joins Annals of Forest Science as a new associate editor

We are pleased to welcome Dr. Marjana Westergren to the Associate Editorial Board of Annals of Forest Science.

Dr. Marjana Westergren holds a PhD in Forest Science (University of Ljubljana, 2010) and is currently Research Fellow at Slovenian Forestry Institute (Department of Forest Physiology and Genetics), in Ljubljana (Slovenia) and a Research collaborator at European Forest Institute (Barcelona, Spain).

Previously, she worked as a Collaborator at Bioversity International (Rome, Italy).
She has been conducting applied research to support the conservation and sustainable use of forest genetic resources. Her work has focused on several topics in the general field of Evolutionary Biology, including the study of processes explaining the distribution of genetic diversity in forest trees, from gene flow to fine-scale spatial genetic structure using classical and new-generation population genetic and genomic approaches, in the field of ecological genetics and genomics of local adaptation as well as with developing a concept for forest genetic monitoring.

She has published over 50 scientific and applied papers and book chapters and is currently the coordinator of the Interreg Danube project REFOCuS, as well as coordinator of WP5 in H2020 project FORGENIUS, and Deputy Coordinator of IUFRO’s Division 2 (Physiology & Genetics) and Working Party 2.04.11 (Alpine Forest Genomics). She has strong links with the EUFORGEN and EVOLTREE networks, in which she actively participates, being the EUFGIS focal point in Slovenia and an elected member of the EVOLTREE Executive Committee, where she is in co-charge of the OPPORTUNITY funding initiative.

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