Being one of the few female forestry engineers at CREAF and having come from environmental consultancy and hydraulic modelling gives Diana Pascual a unique profile. Hers is a trajectory of courageous decisions often taken based on intuition, such as getting involved in research projects from a professional profile markedly oriented towards the knowledge transfer.

These days we are shocked by the floods caused by the DANA in Valencia, Castilla la Mancha, Murcia and Andalusia, among other regions. A DANA - the acronym for Depresión Aislada en Niveles Altos - is a common meteorological phenomenon in the Mediterranean, also known as a cold drop, but now it is becoming much more virulent due to climate change and we are already seeing the serious consequences.