The University of Leeds is acclaimed world-wide for the quality of its teaching and research, and continues to be ranked within the top 100 universities in the QS world rankings. Leeds is one of the largest universities in the UK. In 2012/2013 it had an annual income of £520 and over 30,000 students (over 7,000 postgraduate students) and approximately 6,450 staff of 99 different nationalities, attached to 560 different undergraduate and 300 postgraduate degree programmes. In 2012/2013 its annual research income exceeded £120m of which 11.5% was derived from EU awards.

Principal Investigator:

Guy Ziv is a Lecturer in the School of Geography working on ecosystem modelling and quantifying ecosystem services. He got his MSc in physics and a PhD in biological physics from the Weizmann Insititute of Science, Israel. Dr. Ziv was one of the Lead Scientists and the lead model developer of the Natural Capital Project working in Stanford University, USA. He is experienced in coordinating multi-institutions large coordinated projects, and headed large projects for the US EPA and US Department of Defence.
His role in Ecopotential is leader of WP6 (EO-based ecosystem modelling) and coordinator of task 7.1 in WP7 (Using EO-data for ecosystem services models).