Leader for Task 2.3 and a scientific partner for the Polish part of the High Tatra Case Study. She is an Assistant Professor at the Forest and Nature Conservation Policy Group at Wageningen University. She works on the perception, understanding and use of forests by different social groups, various approaches to, and interpretations of nature protection and forest management, and interdisciplinary research relating to forest and environmental topics.

Tatiana is an ecological-institutional economist and a full professor of management at Slovak Academy of Sciences and the Slovak University of Technology. She is a Director of CEE research network CETIP, which is an independent supra-regional collaborative research network of Central and Eastern Europe. Her research concerns governance and behavioural aspects of sustainability transformation and transdisciplinary collaboration between natural and social sciences under the conditions of complexity and uncertainty. Current research experience are commons, ecosystem service governance and social and institutional innovation.

Miroslav is a forest ecologist a full professor of forest management at Czech University of Life Sciences at Prague. Research interests include forest dynamics, forest management and biodiversity, disturbance ecology, and dendroecology in temperate and tropical forests. Leader and founder of Forest Dynamics and Biodiversity research group that established REMOTE network (www.remoteforests.org). The establishment of this research network over the past resulted in what is currently one of the largest forest research networks of permanent research plots in primary temperate forests. The network comprises more than 1000 permanent research plots established in currently 9 European countries, that are regularly re-measured.

Zuzana has 20 years of research experience in the field of forest policy, focusing on intersectoral relations in forestry, nature conservation and rural development, intra-sectoral relations in forestry, policy instruments to promote innovation and ecosystem services in forestry. The experience and abilities of the principal investigator are documented by the international engagement in scientific teams (e.g. Forest Europe expert group on ES, EFI projects INNOFOREST, Engaging, H2020 ARANGE or COST actions).

Martin is a forest ecologist at Czech University of Life Sciences at Prague. His research concerns. Research interests include forest dynamics and biodiversity in temperate and tropical forests. Co-founder of Forest Dynamics and Biodiversity research group that established REMOTE network (www.remoteforests.org).

Stanislava has her universitiy degrees in environmental planning and management and spatial planning. She has been working at Slovak Academy of Sciences since 2016 as a researcher of international projects (H2020, Horizon Europe, COST Action) and has a reach experience of research exchange programs participation at universities and research centres in Finland, Iceland, Netherlands, Slovenia, Sweden, UK. Her research focuses on adaptive management of marginalized mountain regions and vulnerable communities, multi-actors decision making under uncertainty and global changes, adaptive EU policies and ecosystem services governance.

Olena is a member of Slovak Academy of Sciences research team. She is a PhD student with the main focus on rewilding in terms of turbulent times. Her work is based on nature based solutions` management with yield towards ecological and economical sustainability. Together with the team she works on institutional analysis, choice experiment, and High Tatras rewilding case study.

Nacho is an ecologist at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW) with strong background on fundamental and applied ecology. He co-leads task 2.4 with Liesbeth Bakker, coordinating and facilitating research on WP2 Rewilding Practice, gathering standardized information across case studies and making sure things go smoothly. He also oversees research and stakeholder engagement at the (Dutch) case study Gelderse Poort, and is contributing towards a number of other research outputs, including comparative work across case studies, identifying rewilding archetypes and synthesis work on WP5.

Project lead for WP2 on Rewilding Practice. She is senior researcher at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW) and professor in rewilding Ecology at Wageningen University & Research. She works on rewilding and ecosystem restoration under global change in freshwater and marine wetlands, grasslands and forest landscapes.

Peter Keil is the managing and scientific director of the Biologische Station Westliches Ruhrgebiet in Oberhausen, Germany. He is engaged in the case study Ruhrgebiet. His main areas of work are nature conservation & urban biodiversity, ruderal vegetation and adventitious flora, Flora and vegetation of industrial, mining and railway wastelands (industrial nature).

PhD candidate at Wageningen University working on the social dimensions of rewilding, related to conflicts and conflict mitigation and management strategies in task 2.3 of the wildE project.

Co-leader of the work package ‘Rewilding Baselines’ (WP1) and leader of Task 2.3 as well as a scientific partner for the German Case Study Westliches Ruhrgebiet. He is a professor and chairholder of the Forest and Nature Conservation Policy Group at Wageningen University. He works on forest and conservation policy and is interested in interdisciplinary collaboration which in his opinion holds great potential to advance our understanding of increasingly pressing land use and environmental issues.

Michael Wachsmann is a researcher at the Biologische Station Westliches Ruhrgebiet in Oberhausen, Germany. He is engaged in the case study Ruhrgebiet. He works on industrial nature and biodiversity in urban areas, GIS-based analyses and population surveys of amphibians and fish.

Leader of Task 4.2 and coordinator of the Baixo Sabor Case study. Senior researcher at the Research Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources (BIOPOLIS-CIBIO). He works on various aspects related to the conservation of biodiversity in forest, agricultural and freshwater ecosystems.

Researcher at the Research Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources (BIOPOLIS-CIBIO). He is participating in the research tasks of the Baixo Sabor Case study. He works mainly in the modelling of biological communities, in particular on the anthropogenic impacts.

Junior researcher at the Research Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources (BIOPOLIS-CIBIO). He is co-responsible for the development of the two Portuguese rewilding case studies and will also be engaged in designing operational guidelines for landscape rewilding in Europe (WP4).

Lluís is senior CSIC research scientist at CREAF. His research as a landscape ecologist focuses on the assessment of global change impacts on terrestrial communities with a strong emphasis on birds and Mediterranean landscape dynamics. He works in WP2, WP3 (where he leads a task on Biodiversity modelling) and WP4 where he acts as a co-chair of the WP.

He is senior researcher at the Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF). He investigates the dynamics and functioning of spontaneous forest establishment in abandoned land to assess their contribution to climate change mitigation and their sensitivity to disturbances (e.g., wildfires). He coordinates the CREAF team in wildE.

Rodrigo works in WP2 assisting with modeling tasks in the Barcelona Metropolitan Region (BM) case study. He is a Postdoctoral Researcher at CREAF, where he works on ecology and forestry from an ecoinformatics perspective.

Miquel is a CREAF researcher coordinating the Ecosystem Modelling Facility. As a researcher he is particularly interested in the development of process-based models of Mediterranean forest function and dynamics. Within WildE he participates in WP2 providing tools for the modeling tasks in the Barcelona Metropolitan Region.

Niall leads the ASPECT unit (Analytics for Sustainable Policy towards Environmental and Climate Transition) at the Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics in the University of Galway in Ireland. He specializes in LULUCF policy and peatland policy relating to climate and biodiversity in particular. He formerly worked as a Senator in the Irish Parliament and was elected as part of the Agricultural panel.

Senior researcher at the Research Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources (BIOPOLIS-CIBIO). He is the coordinator of the Antarr Case study. He works on various aspects related to the conservation of biodiversity in forest and agricultural ecosystems.

Junior researcher at the Research Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources (BIOPOLIS-CIBIO). He is co-responsible for the development of the two Portuguese rewilding case studies and will also be engaged in designing operational guidelines for landscape rewilding in Europe (WP4).

Lydwin is a PhD candidate at Lund University. During her PhD, she will evaluate Swedish Ecoparks, which are multifunctional forest landscapes that are owned by a forestry company called Sveaskog. More specifically, she will try to understand how active and passive restoration and rewilding practices affect the forest structure, species diversity of for example insects such as the cuckoo wasps, and carbon sequestration in forest ecosystems.

Henrik Smith is a professor in animal ecology, with a focus on the consequences of landscape-scale management on biodiversity and ecosystem services. Henrik is leading the team working with the Sveaskog case study and will participate in both studies of biodiversity-consequences of the Sveaskog Ekopark concept, and analyses of the wider costs and benefits of the concept for Sveaskog as a company and society at large.