Jaime Paneque-Gálvez is Assistant Professor at the Center of Research in Environmental Geography (CIGA), National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). His research focuses on land-change science, ethnoecology, political ecology, grassroots innovation and citizen science. He is especially well known for his work on the use of drones for community-based monitoring in tropical forest environments. He also works on topics of participatory mapping, Indigenous knowledge and land practices, and remote sensing of forest degradation.