Research director at INRAE, France. Scientific Officer in charge of Latin America at the INRAE Direction of International Relations, and a member of the INRAE scientific council. In charge of the INRAE International Priority Program “Adaptation of forests and agroforests to climate change”. Research activity: study of adaptation of forest trees to climate in natural and artificial forest tree populations. Investigation of evolutionary adaptation and adaptive phenotypic plasticity based essentially on annual rings and wood formation studies. Co-director (with A. Martinez-Meier from INTA, Argentina) of the International Associated Laboratory between INRAE, France, INTA, Argentina and University of Huanta, Peru: FORESTIA [https://www6.inrae.fr/forestia/].