Rate My Professor Maurício Roberto Cherubin

Maurício Roberto Cherubin is Professor Associado II in the Department of Soil Science at the "Luiz de Queiroz" College of Agriculture, Universidade de São Paulo (ESALQ/USP). He holds a degree in Agronomic Engineering from the Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM, 2006-2011), a Bachelor’s degree in Administration from the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC, 2007-2012), a Master’s degree in Agronomy from UFSM (2011-2013), and a Doctorate in Sciences with concentration in Soils and Plant Nutrition from ESALQ/USP (2013-2016). He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Nuclear Energy in Agriculture (CENA/USP) from 2016 to 2018 and served as a visiting researcher at the United States Department of Agriculture National Laboratory for Agriculture and the Environment in 2015.

His research focuses on quantifying and understanding the impacts of land use and management practices on soil health, carbon dynamics, productivity, and the resilience of natural and agricultural ecosystems. Cherubin coordinates the Soil Health Management Research Group (SOHMA), serves as vice-coordinator general and research director of the Center for Carbon Research in Tropical Agriculture (CCARBON/USP), and is vice-director of the Nature Based Solutions program at the Research Center for Greenhouse Gas Innovation (RCGI). He teaches in the Agronomic Engineering, Forestry Engineering, and Environmental Management programs and coordinates the Brazilian Soil Health Partnership. He is a CNPq Research Productivity Fellow, an affiliated member of the Academia Brasileira de Ciências and the Academia de Ciências do Estado de São Paulo, and has received the Prêmio Fundação Bunge Juventude (2022) in Agricultural Sciences and the Prêmio Excelência para Novas Lideranças em Pesquisa na USP (2025) in Agricultural Sciences. He has been listed among the world’s most influential researchers from 2021 to 2025.