Professor: Maurício Roberto Cherubin
Professor at the Department of Soil Science at the Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture – University of São Paulo (ESALQ-USP), in Piracicaba – SP, Brazil.
Mr. Cherubin works in the Soil Health and Management area.
He teaches and supervises students in the Soils and Plant Nutrition Postgraduate Program (ESALQ/USP), focusing on the following lines of research:
Impacts of land use and soil management practices on soil health indicators and crop productivity in agricultural systems;
Development of methodologies (selection, interpretation and integration of indicators) for assessing soil health and ecosystem services;
Carbon dynamics in agricultural soils: quantification, monitoring and management;
Nature-based solutions for mitigating and adapting to climate change;
Academic Background
Agronomist – Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM), 2006–2011;
Bachelor in Business Administration – Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), 2007–2012;
Master’s Degree in Agronomy (Graduate Program in Agronomy: Agriculture and Environment) – UFSM, 2011–2013;
Ph.D. in Sciences (concentration in Soil and Plant Nutrition) – Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture, University of São Paulo (ESALQ-USP), 2013–2016;
Visiting Researcher (2015) at the National Laboratory for Agriculture and the Environment (NLAE), Agricultural Research Service – United States Department of Agriculture (ARS-USDA);
Postdoctoral Researcher in Environmental Biogeochemistry – Center for Nuclear Energy in Agriculture, University of São Paulo (CENA-USP), 2016–2018;
Habilitation (Livre-Docência) in Soil Health – ESALQ-USP, 2025.
Research Area
His research aims at quantifying and understanding the impacts of land use and management practices on soil health, carbon dynamics and the provision of ecosystem services in agricultural and natural ecosystems. In addition, he seeks to assess the potential of nature-based solutions (NBS) in mitigating and adapting to global warming and climate change.
Research Productivity Fellow - CNPq;
Deputy Director of the Center for Carbon Research in Tropical Agriculture (CCARBON);
Deputy Director of the Nature Based Solutions (NBS) program at the Research Center for Greenhouse Gas Innovation (RCGI);
Bunge Foundation Youth Award in 2022 (Agricultural Sciences - "carbon credit and regenerative agriculture);
He is listed as one of the most influential researchers in world science;
Affiliate Member of the Brazilian Academy of Science;
Winner of the 2025 Excellence Award for Emerging Research Leaders at USP (Agricultural Sciences).
He is the leader of the CNPq research group:
SOHMA - Soil Management and Quality (dgp.cnpq.br/dgp/espelhogrupo/8148591979630008)
