David Moreno

David Moreno-Mateos

Assistant Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture. Graduate School of Design. Harvard University. USA

Affiliate faculty, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology. Faculty of Arts and Science. Harvard University. USA

Ikerbasque Research Professor. Basque Center for Climate Change – BC3. Spain

dmoreno@gsd.harvard.edu (USA)
david.moreno@bc3research.org (Spain)

My passion is to combine disciplines to solve environmental challenges, especially in the context of ecosystem restoration and ecological engineering. I love learning from archaeologists, paleolimnologists, economists or theoreticians in my research endeavors. My background is in Natural Resource Engineering and Forestry (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid). I did my PhD at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) on wetland engineering. Then I moved to UC Berkeley for a postdoc at the Integrative Biology Department with Mary Power. I was later awarded the Jasper Ridge Restoration Fellowship at Stanford University and then spent one year at the French National Research Council (CNRS) before I was awarded a tenure-track Ikerbasque Research Fellowship. In 2019, I was tenured as an Ikerbasque Associate Researcher, position that I still hold. In 2020, I joined the Department of Landscape Architecture with an affiliation to the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University.

Postdoctoral Researchers

Flaviane Malaquias Costa
Flaviane Malaquias Costa
Postdoctoral Researcher

I am an agronomist, MSc. in Plant Genetic Resources and PhD in Genetics and Plant Breeding. I worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of São Paulo (Brazil), Department of Genetics, linked to the Conservation Genetics and Genomics Group. I have experience and research collaborations with national (Brazil) and international organizations (Italy, French Guyana, Uruguay, Peru, Mexico, United States and England); and I have integrated a network of 29 institutions, governmental and non-governmental, from Brazil and Uruguay, for research projects and germplasm collection involving 5 biomes from South America. I am working in the following areas: i) Plant Genetics and Genomics; ii) Evolutionary Biology; iii) Ethnobotany; iv) Plant Genetic Resources Conservation; v) Evolution and Plant Domestication; vi) Traditional and Family Agriculture.


Doctoral Students

Eve Allen
Eve Allen
Doctoral Student


Monica Lay Dewi
Monica Lay Dewi
Doctoral Student


Javier Porras Gomez
Javier Porras Gomez
Doctoral Student


Joe Kennedy
Joe Kennedy
Doctoral Student

I am an interdisciplinary designer and creative technologist who works across multiple scales in both natural and built environments. As a first year DDes at Harvard GSD, my research leverages digital fabrication, tunable material and applied ecology for the remediation of post-industrial landscapes. I’m a graduate of the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where I worked in the Mediated Matter group with Neri Oxman to produce bio-fabricated structures exhibited in MoMa, SFMoMA and the Cooper Hewitt. I received his Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell University with a Goodwin Sands thesis prize and Eidlitz Fellowship. I have held teaching positions at UC Berkeley, Woodbury University and the Boston Architectural College. Additionally, I co-taught design-build studios at AHO during his Fulbright Fellowship in Oslo. Previously, I have worked for design firms such as Snøhetta in SF, Only If in NYC, and Miniwiz in Taipei as well as in creative roles at NASA JPL in LA, and OPT Industries in Cambridge.


June Lee
June Lee
Doctoral Student


Alvaro Moreno Martin
Alvaro Moreno Martin
Doctoral Student




Research Assistants


Najam Sahar
Najam Sahar
Research Assistant


Juliana Silveira
Juliana Silveira
Research Assistant


Doctoral Students

Name Years Program Graduating Institution
Vanessa Harden 2021-2025 Doctor in Design. Harvard Graduate School of Design Independent artist and designer
Asun Rodriguez Una 2016 - 2021 Graduate Program in Conservation and Management of Biodiversity. University of the Basque Country Royal Society Fellow. University of Cambridge

Postdoctoral researchers

Name Years Program Graduating Institution
Veronica Cruz Alonso 2021-2023 Atraccion Talento Fellowship. Universidad de Alcala. Spain
Estefania Fernandez Barrancos 2022-2023 Lead Forester. Gaia-AI. Boston, Massachusetts, USA