I am a Postdoctoral research associate at the department of Agronomy and Horticulture, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. As a postdoctoral associate, I am working on projects ranging from crop modeling to collaborating with partners researching on resilient cropping systems in the Wild midwestern United States. For one of my assignments, I am trying to model the impacts of several corn management facilities on corn yield using The Agricultural Production Systems sIMulator (APSIM). I wish to implement my interdisciplinary knowledge and skills in Soil Science, Agroforestry and Engineering towards sustainable farming practices and improving resilience in cropping systems. I have always been fascinated with process modeling ranging from atmospheric process, biogeochemical processes to cropping systems but I am still in the steep learning curve.
I completed my PhD from the University of Florida with a major in Forestry, a minor in Soil and Water Sciences and a concentration in Agroforestry. In the past four years, I was involved in sustainable land-use practices by growing trees on farms which can improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers in the developing world and benefit the environment by reducing the emissions of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide.
During my tenure as an exchange researcher at the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE), Costa Rica, the Forest Research Institute (FRI), India, I have been involved in carrying out extensive field work on sustainable coffee and tea farms; evaluating the efficiencies of agroforestry systems in storing carbon in soil, improving smallholding farmers’ resilience to a changing climate while also maintaining environmental quality.
I have worked extensively in cross-functional teams and collaborated across research institutes on projects that demanded effective communication to plan and design the experiments. As a result, I have perfected communication in a team, that involves the design of experiments, delegation, clarification of expectations, defining milestones.
Years down the line, I am looking forward to utilizing my experience as well as my critical and analytical skills towards advocating sustainable agriculture training and certification programs, efficient farm management, improving the livelihood of farmers, climate resilience, and the conservation of precious natural resources.
I completed my PhD from the University of Florida with a major in Forestry, a minor in Soil and Water Sciences and a concentration in Agroforestry. In the past four years, I was involved in sustainable land-use practices by growing trees on farms which can improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers in the developing world and benefit the environment by reducing the emissions of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide.
During my tenure as an exchange researcher at the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE), Costa Rica, the Forest Research Institute (FRI), India, I have been involved in carrying out extensive field work on sustainable coffee and tea farms; evaluating the efficiencies of agroforestry systems in storing carbon in soil, improving smallholding farmers’ resilience to a changing climate while also maintaining environmental quality.
I have worked extensively in cross-functional teams and collaborated across research institutes on projects that demanded effective communication to plan and design the experiments. As a result, I have perfected communication in a team, that involves the design of experiments, delegation, clarification of expectations, defining milestones.
Years down the line, I am looking forward to utilizing my experience as well as my critical and analytical skills towards advocating sustainable agriculture training and certification programs, efficient farm management, improving the livelihood of farmers, climate resilience, and the conservation of precious natural resources.