Yuri Gelsleichter

Yuri is an Environmental Engineer with a background in Remote Sensing and GIS. He is a PhD candidate at Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro focusing on Proximal Soil Sensing. He is also involved with the Brazilian soil database and aims to contribute to the Universal Soil Classification System.

In 2019, Yuri joined ISRIC as guest researcher to contribute to modeling and digital soil mapping. His stay was made possible through a fellowship awarded by the Climate Food and Farming Network (CLIFF) and the Global Research Alliance (GRA).