Dr. Yakir Preisler is the PI of the Urban Forest Lab. Yakir is a plant eco-physiologist, studying trees’ response to climate change. Yakir seeks to understand tree’s functionality capabilities in urban environment and how trees mitigate the urban heat island, reducing thermal stress and thriving under such stressful ecosystem.
Yakir earned his Ph.D. in Plant Science from the Faculty of Agriculture at the Hebrew University, in collaboration with the Weizmann Institute.
Following his Ph.D., Yakir pursued postdoctoral research at Harvard University
Founder of the Urban Trees Ecophysiology Network (UTEN)
