Maria Eliza Turek

Maria Eliza Turek is a PhD candidate from the Federal University of Paraná, Brazil, who joined ISRIC as guest researcher through a fellowship awarded by the Climate Food and Farming Network (CLIFF) and the Global Research Alliance (GRA). She has a background in soil physics and environmental modelling and will mainly contribute to the projects on ‘Mapping derived soil hydrological properties using machine learning’ and ‘Mapping soil organic carbon change to support climate change mitigation’. Her work is supervised by Gerard Heuvelink and Niels Batjes.