Wanderson de Sousa Mendes

Wanderson de Sousa Mendes works as a postdoctoral research at the Leibinz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF). He started to work with remote and proximal sensing during his bachelor in agricultural engineering, when he got a scholarship from the Brazilian government, called “Science without borders”, to study in Sydney, Australia. Back to Brazil, he got a PhD at the Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture, University of Sao Paulo, directly after the graduation. His research project was entitled “Geotechnologies applied in digital soil mapping”. Afterwards, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the OpenGeoHub at Wagenigen, Netherlands. Since May 2021, he has been working at ZALF and is specialised in using integrated remote and proximal sensing for mapping and monitoring soil and landscape processes. Recently, he was awarded with a Grant for Early Career Researchers and Professionals by the British Society of Soil Science during the 22^nd World Congress of Soil Science.