Ex-members
Post-doctorate
Renato Paiva de Lima


Agricultural Engineer from the Federal University of Paraíba (2006-2011), Master in Agricultural Engineering from the Federal Rural University of Pernambuco (2011-2013), and PhD (2013-2017) in Soils and Plant Nutrition from the Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture/University of São Paulo (ESALQ/USP), with a sandwich period at the Agroscope Institute, Zurich, Switzerland. He was a substitute professor at the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Mato Grosso (IFMT) - Barra do Garças Campus, working in the high school-technical course in Environmental Control and Postgraduate Latu Sensu in Agroecology (2017-2018). He worked in a Postdoctoral Internship in the Postgraduate Program in Agricultural Engineering at UFRPE (2018-2022). He has worked mainly with: (1) Soils, (2) Soil Physics, (3) Soil Compaction, (4) Agricultural Traffic, (5) Modeling and Computational Methods in Soil Physics. He has experience with R Software, in the development of computational functions and packages (soilphysics, R package) applied to Soil Physics and Mechanics in Agriculture and with Finite Element modeling (Comsol Multiphysics Software). He is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the USP Postdoctoral Program, developing his research with the Soil Health & Management Research Group (SOHMA) in the Department of Soil Science at ESALQ/USP.
Bruna Gonçalves Carvalho
Bruna holds a degree in Biological Sciences from the Methodist University of Piracicaba (2007), a master's degree (2011) and a PhD (2015) in Sciences with an emphasis on Agricultural Microbiology from the University of São Paulo, Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture (ESALQ-USP), with a sandwich period (2013-2014) at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She has experience in Environmental Biogeochemistry and Agricultural Microbiology with an emphasis on climate change and global warming, through the monitoring of greenhouse gas emissions, nitrogen fertilizer use efficiency and carbon footprint calculations, as well as the study of microbial diversity through classical isolation and cultivation techniques, molecular microbiology and NGS platforms. She is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow of the RCGI Ag4C project (FAPESP/SHELL) working specifically on understanding the microbiological pathways responsible for soil N20 emissions in crop-livestock integration systems.


PhD


Felipe completed his Master's degree in the Postgraduate Program in Agronomy-Agriculture and Environment at the Federal University of Santa Maria, Frederico Westphalen campus (UFSM/FW) in 2017, developing activities with the Soil Physics research group. He graduated in Agronomy from UFSM/FW (2014), when he carried out activities related to Alternative Nutrient Sources, Soil Compaction, Soil Mechanical Resistance to Penetration and Soil Compressibility. He is currently a Laboratory Technician/Soils area at UFSM/FW on leave to pursue a PhD in Soils and Plant Nutrition at ESALQ/USP. He has developed his research focused on the evaluation of soil ecosystem services, related to the regulation of soil water flow, soil structuring and plant growth.
Felipe Bonini da Luz
Master's
Victor Ferreira Maciel
Agricultural Engineer from the Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture (ESALQ) at the University of São Paulo (USP). He was a master's student in the postgraduate program in Soils and Plant Nutrition (ESALQ-USP). He worked in the area of soil management and quality, with an emphasis on the evaluation of soil physical quality and soil carbon in soybean, corn and cotton production areas.


Gabriela Marques Cardoso


Agricultural Engineer from the Federal University of Uberlândia - UFU (2015-2020). She worked as an intern at the Ornamental Plant Tissue Culture Laboratory of the Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture - ESALQ/USP (2019). Master's student in the Postgraduate Program in Soils and Plant Nutrition - ESALQ, with an emphasis on Soil Management and Quality. Her research involved evaluating the impact of the use of soil microbiota activators on Soil Quality in ten areas of different regions of Brazil (South, Midwest and Northeast), comparing experimental strips with and without the application of the products.
Daniel Aquino de Borba


An Agricultural Engineer from the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM/FW), he completed his master's degree in Soil Science at the University of São Paulo (ESALQ/USP). He has been working on soil quality since 2014, and is a member of the research project "Implications of the expansion and intensification of sugarcane cultivation on soil ecosystem services". He conducted the research "Apparent electrical conductivity of soil in the diagnosis of soil compaction".
Maria Emília Marostica
Agricultural engineer from the Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture (ESALQ) - University of São Paulo (USP). (2016-2021). She completed her master's degree in Soils and Plant Nutrition in the postgraduate program also at the Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture (ESALQ) - University of São Paulo (USP). She is currently conducting research in the area of soil quality, with a focus on integrated management systems.
Larissa de Souza Bortolo
Mrs. Bortolo completed her master's degree in the Postgraduate Program in Soils and Plant Nutrition at the Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture (2022-2024). The main objective of her project was to evaluate the effect of diversifying production systems with forages on carbon and soil health, in addition to evaluating the impacts on soybean productivity in the state of Tocantins. She is an agricultural engineer from the Federal University of Uberlândia, where she developed research on the reuse of residues in agriculture, aiming at promoting soil quality. Among these residues, biofertilizer based on native soil microorganisms and the use of wastewater from coffee cultivation as a source of potassium stand out.




Master's degree in the Postgraduate Program in Soils and Plant Nutrition - Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture(2022-2024). Agricultural Engineer from the Federal University of Ceará (UFC), where she worked developing research on carbon and nitrogen contents and stocks in sandy soils in the semiarid region. She is currently researching changes in microbiota and soil health caused by chemical activators.
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José Gabriel Ribeiro
Maria Julia Grassi
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Matheus de Sá Altariugio
Guilherme Teles
Murilo Henrique do Nascimento
Rodrigo Henrique Garrido
Gabriel Marcondes
Gustavo O. Silva
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