Dr. Adrian Pascual is Assistant Professor in the Department of Geographical Sciences at the University of Maryland. He supports the NASA Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) mission as Science Team (ST) member. He graduated from his Ph.D. in 2018 at the University of Eastern Finland. His research interests are in the areas of forest carbon & biodiversity and applied decision-making. He makes remote sensing data products actionable and operational for decision-making. He is a current Science Team Member of the GEDI mission, the new NASA FireSense program and co-I in 2022-funded projects through NASA’s Carbon Monitoring Systems and a GEDI ST grant to study post-fire forest recovery. His previous appointments included postdoctoral positions (2019-21) at Professor Gregory Asner’s Lab & United States Forest Service, and at the University of Lisbon.He has published 41 peer-reviewed articles in scientific journals, 27 as first author, in topics such as forest carbon monitoring, laser and image data processing and forest modeling, stand & tree harvest-scheduling models using heuristics and mathematical programming. He has co-authored four global products using GEDI data and others. The goal of his research is to make remote sensing data products actionable and operational for decision-making. He is currently Associate Editor of Forest Policy and Economics, NASA GEDI and FireSense Science Team Member, co-PI in the Carbon Monitoring System project "Pantropical structure and biomass mapping using the fusion of GEDI and TanDEM-X data - Phase II" and co-I in the GEDI ST project "Understanding post-fire disturbance forest recovery in Mediterranean ecosystems using GEDI"