Dr. Bruno Senterre holds a Docteur en Écologie from the Université Libre de Bruxelles, where he continues to serve as a scientific collaborator. Originally from Belgium, he has been a resident of Seychelles since 2008 and works as an international consultant.

His main areas of expertise are botany, ecosystems, and various branches of ecology, as well as database design and management. His primary research focus is the study of habitat types in tropical regions as a means to explore broader levels of biodiversity organisation. His scientific approach is grounded in transdisciplinarity, conceptual thinking, and systems-based analysis.

Trained as a tropical agronomy engineer, Dr. Senterre has over twenty years of experience in environmental studies, encompassing scientific research, consultancy, project management, and the teaching and training of young researchers in Europe and developing countries.

He possesses extensive knowledge and experience in general ecology—including restoration, conservation, and functional ecology—as well as vegetation typology, vegetation taxonomy, biogeography, and biological invasions. Dr. Senterre has conducted biodiversity inventories in complex environments such as tropical rainforests, tropical islands, montane forests, and fragmented habitats.

The strength of his methodology lies in his transdisciplinary approach, which draws connections between concepts across his areas of specialisation. His main interest is that of a systems ecologist and naturalist.

Dr Senterre’s field experience is extensive, with several years spent in the forests of Central Africa (Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon, and the Democratic Republic of Congo), as well as fieldwork in the Caribbean, Central America, Seychelles, and Malaysia.

His technical expertise includes GIS (Geographic Information Systems), statistical analysis, biodiversity field inventory and assessment, restoration programme implementation, risk analysis, database design and development, herbarium curation, numerical taxonomy, and the creation of interactive species identification tools.