Javier Saborio is a civil engineer - specialty in computer Science - hydrology – and watershed management. His special interests are: Geographic Information System & Remote Sensing – Risk Analysis & Management of Natural Resources

Raffaele Vignola is an agronomy engineer with a specialization in environmental economics. His special interests are: vulnerability and adaptation, risk assessment, water, policy-science dialogue.

Patricia Ramirez is a climatologist. In Trofcca, she works on climate change and variability scenarios and the interaction with climate modeling groups.

Lucio Pedroni is a forest scientist and the leader of the Global Change Group in CATIE. He is involved in Trofcca policy-science dialogue and the issues related with financial mechanisms.

Pablo Imbach is an agronomist with a specialization in watershed management. His special interests are GIS, landscape ecology and payment for environmental services.

Marcos Rugnitz Tito is a forest engineer. Within Trofcca, he works on bioclimatic modeling and database, for instance about species distribution. He is also involved in the policy-science dialogue.

Thomas Koellner was trained as biologist and economist. He is leading the research group "Ecosystem Services on Markets" at ETH Zurich. In TroFCCA he is developing an ecological economic model and assessment tool with respect to the insurance service of forest ecosystems.