Ana Maria Yañez Serrano
Dr. Ana María Yáñez-Serrano is an environmental scientist who studies how plants and ecosystems influence the air we breathe through the release of natural gases called volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Her work connects biology, chemistry, and climate science to understand how forests and cities interact with the atmosphere. She developed GLOVOCs, a global open-science tool used by research teams worldwide, and has led studies revealing the role of plant emissions in air quality, climate processes, and rainwater chemistry. Dr. Yáñez-Serrano earned her BSc from the University of Nottingham (2009), MSc from Lund University (2011), and PhD from the National Institute for Amazonian Research and the State University of the Amazon (2015). After research stays in Germany and Spain, she joined IDAEA-CSIC in 2021 as a Ramón y Cajal researcher and La Caixa Foundation Junior Leader Fellow, and is currently awaiting appointment as a Tenured Scientist.
Works
Analysis of the abundance and impacts of volatile organic compounds across Europe – https://www.nature.com/articles/s41612-026-01378-9_reference.pdf – 2026.03
Toluene early morning peaks as potential biogenic stress signals of Mediterranean forests – https://doi.org/10.1039/D5EA00168D – 2026
Unaccounted impacts of diterpene emissions on atmospheric aerosol loadings – https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02613-6 – 2025.08
Environmental Change Is Reshaping the Temperature Sensitivity of Sesquiterpene Emissions and Their Atmospheric Impacts – 2025.06
Optimizing the Temperature Sensitivity of the Isoprene Emission Model MEGAN in Different Ecosystems Using a Metropolis‐Hastings Markov Chain Monte Carlo Method – https://doi.org/10.1029/2025JG008806 – 2025.05