About

Leonardo de Aro Galera is a Research Fellow at CCARBON/USP (Center for Carbon Research in Tropical Agriculture) and the Soil Health & Management Research Group (SOHMA), where he coordinates the CNPq-funded project "Impacts of regenerative agriculture on the mechanisms and processes that control soil health in Brazil." His work combines large-scale soil databases, soil health indices adapted to Brazilian production systems, and advanced techniques such as synchrotron X-ray microtomography and artificial intelligence to assess carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus dynamics. He holds a Dr. rer. nat. in Earth System Sciences from the Universität Hamburg, an MSc from CENA/USP, and an Agronomy degree from ESALQ/USP, with research experience spanning tropical agriculture and Arctic carbon dynamics. He was also an expert reviewer for the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report Synthesis.