J. Nicolas Hernandez-Aguilera

Dr. J. Nicolas Hernandez-Aguilera conducts research that contributes to expanding analysis and tools for community sensing, climate services, and sustainable food systems with a particular emphasis on rural communities in the Global South. As an applied and interdisciplinary researcher, he generated frameworks and models to scale local knowledge and smallholders’ perceptions, leading to ground-based policies and instruments for climate risk management, alternative business models, land management practices, and biodiversity conservation in tropical crops. His work has been published in Nature Sustainability, Ecological Economics, Business Strategies, and the Environment, and Games, among others. Dr. Hernandez-Aguilera teaches the course Food Systems and Climate Services during the fall semester.