Rate My Professor Tiago Osório Ferreira

Tiago Osório Ferreira is a Professor Associado and Vice-Chefe do Departamento in the Department of Soil Science at the Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz (ESALQ) of the Universidade de São Paulo. He earned his undergraduate degree in Agronomic Engineering from the Universidade Federal de São Carlos in 1999, followed by a master’s degree in 2002 and a PhD in 2006 in Agronomy (Soils and Plant Nutrition) from ESALQ/USP. He completed part of his doctoral studies at the Universidad de Santiago de Compostela in Spain in 2005. From 2006 to 2012, he served as Professor Adjunto at the Universidade Federal do Ceará. Since 2013, he has held his current position at ESALQ/USP, where he obtained the title of Livre-Docente in Pedologia in February 2020. He is a CNPq productivity scholar at level 1D and serves as Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Soils and Plant Nutrition at ESALQ-USP, as well as vice-coordinator of the specialization course in Environmental Management. Ferreira’s research focuses on soil geochemistry applied to pedogenesis and agroenvironmental studies, with emphasis on soil genesis, pedogenesis, wetlands, Technosols, and soil reclamation. He has advised numerous graduate and undergraduate students, supervised postdoctoral researchers, and leads the research group GEPGEOQ, which maintains international collaborations. He is a member of editorial boards for journals including Revista Ciência Agronômica, Revista Scientia Agricola, and Revista Ciência, Tecnologia e Ambiente, and acts as an ad-hoc advisor for funding agencies such as CNPq, FAPESP, and others.