Sumforest – ForRISK welcomes Juan Carlos Zamora Pereira as new Ph.D. student at the University of Freiburg, Germany. Juan Carlos received a Master in Management and Conservation of Tropical Forests and Biodiversity from the Tropical Agricultural and Higher Education Center (CATIE) in Costa Rica. He will work together with Marc Hanewinkel on the ForRISK Work Package 3 – Risk assessment, economic evaluation and development of optimized management strategies to adapt Norway spruce and silver fir forests to extreme drought events.