Stefanie Herrmann

Stefanie Herrmann is a geographer whose research integrates remote sensing, geospatial analysis, and qualitative social science methods to explore land cover change, climate interactions, and human-environment dynamics. Fascinated by drylands since her undergraduate years, her academic journey has taken her to leading desert research centers, including the Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research in Israel, the National Institute of Deserts, Flora and Fauna of Turkmenistan, and the University of Arizona’s former Office of Arid Land Studies, where she earned her PhD in Arid Lands Resource Sciences in 2006. Stefanie has since built a career spanning academia, government research, and consultancy roles with organizations such as the World Bank and the UNCCD. While traveling and collaborating internationally to advance understanding and support the resilience of these remarkable ecosystems, she has made Tucson and the University of Arizona her home base – a place to which she has always returned.