Curriculum Vitae
CV
Research scientist working across the USA, France, the UK, and Brazil on land-surface modelling and the global carbon cycle.
Appointments
- 2022 – present
- Research Scientist, Division of Geological & Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology; Research Scientist Affiliate, Water & Ecosystems Group, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, USA
- 2019 – 2022
- Post-Doctoral Research Scientist, Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science & Engineering, UCLA / NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, USA
- 2018 – 2019
- Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Functional Ecology, Soil Biochemistry & Agro-Ecosystems, INRAE, Campus SupAgro, Montpellier, France
Education
- 2013 – 2018
- Ph.D. in Atmosphere, Oceans and Climate — University of Reading, UK. Thesis: “Improving the treatment of vegetation canopy architecture in Land Surface Models” (advisors: Dr. Tristan Quaife, Dr. Emily Black)
- 2011 – 2013
- M.Sc. in Atmospheric Sciences — University of São Paulo, Brazil
- 2007 – 2010
- B.Sc. in Meteorology — University of São Paulo, Brazil
Grants & awards
- 2023 – 2026
- Resnick Sustainability Institute — Caltech, USA
- 2022
- INCyTE Lab Exchange Fellowship — University of Montana, USA
- 2021
- Critical Zone Initiative — Resnick Institute, Caltech, USA
- 2020
- Postdoctoral NASA / ABoVE Fellowship — NASA JPL, USA
- 2019
- Postdoctoral DOE / NASA Fellowship — NASA JPL, USA
- 2017
- Postdoctoral EU H2020 Fellowship — INRAE, France
- 2014
- Outstanding M.Sc. Dissertation — University of São Paulo, Brazil
Visiting scientist
- 2019
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Tennessee, USA
- 2015
- Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy
Teaching & mentoring
Supervised undergraduate SURF and research students at Caltech (GPS / CliMA) and NASA JPL. Teaching and demonstrating roles at the University of Reading and the University of São Paulo across surface-energy exchange, agrometeorology, and satellite meteorology.
Service
Reviewer for: JGR: Biogeosciences · Remote Sensing of Environment · Water Resources Research · Geoscientific Model Development · Global Change Biology · New Phytologist · Science Advances · Nature · PNAS · Scientific Data · Nature Plants.
Panels: NASA Carbon Program Panel · NASA FINNEST · DOE Panel · IPCC (expert reviewer, AR5 Synthesis Report).
Memberships: American Geophysical Union · European Geosciences Union.