Rut Domenech, PhD

Rut Domenech is a research ecologist at Safford’s lab, at the University of California, in Davis. She is the technical responsible for the California Prescribed Fire Monitoring Program (CPFMP), a joint effort between UC-Davis and Cal Fire to assess and inform on prescribed fires best practices to achieve ecological benefits and mitigate extreme wildfire. She has spent her research career in Spain assessing forest effects under different types of fire regimes and prescribed fire as well as in Scotland understanding heather fire regimes. She has also focused on mosaic dynamics and social management for rural areas to improve landscape resilience and adaptation to climate change. She holds a PhD in Pinus halepensis fuel types management from the Universitat Politècnica of Catalonia (Spain).