Sergey Venevsky (SV) is Lecturer of Physical Geography and participates the River Basin Processes and Management and Ecology and Global Change research clusters. He has 15 years research experience in large scale vegetation and fire modelling. A Master degree at in Mathematics at University of Vienna was followed by a PhD in Ecology at Agricultural University of Vienna, which examined large scale interactions of fires, vegetation dynamics and permafrost in Siberia. He was a Researcher at International Institute for Applied System Analysis, Laxenburg Austria, Potsdam Institute for Climate Research, Germany and Frontier Research for Global Climate Change, Yokohama, Japan. SV is contracted for 25% as a Senior Research Scientist at the Hadley Centre for Climate Predictions, Exeter, where he is responsible for implementation of large scale fire models into the Hadley GCMs (general atmospheric circulation models). He was involved in implementation of large scale fire models into different state-of-the–art dynamic global vegetation models. He was participating in several EU Projects ETEMA, DART, AETEM, SIBERIA-II, several national projects in Russia and an international project on sustainability of Siberian Forests (15 Russian, 2 North American and 6 European institutions). SV is the lead author of North Eastern Eurasian Scientific Project Initiative, run by NASA and the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is currently supervises 2 PhD students examining fire process at global and continental scale. SV has authored over 25 papers in peer-reviewed journals.