Dr. Liana O. Anderson is a biologist (UNICAMP, Brazil), with MSc in Remote Sensing (National Institute for Space Research, INPE, Brazil) and DPhil in Geography and the Environment from Oxford University (2006 to 2010). In September 2011, she joined the Environmental Change Institute as a Pos-Doctoral Researche Associate. Her research focuses on the Earth Observations module of the Working Group 4 (WP4) in the AMAZONICA consortium.
Dr. Anderson has been a visiting researcher at INPE since December 2010, in Brazil, where she is based. She is also a Collaborator Professor of the MSc course in Ecology and Natural Resources Management at the Federal University of Acre (Brazil), and she is the Coordinator of the Forest Chapter, Working Group 3 (Mitigation) of the Brazilian Panel on Climate Change.