Dr. Pedro Batista
Assistent / PostDocAssistent / PostDoc
Bernoullistrasse 30/32
4056
Basel
Schweiz
Research interests
My main research interest is soil erosion. I focus on spatially-distributed soil erosion models and particularly on means to evaluate them. I am interested on representing the uncertainty of large-scale erosion models and on the observational data used for model testing. I am also interested in a variety of soil erosion and sediment transport monitoring techniques, such as sediment fingerprinting and erosion plot experiments.
Professional Positions
2020 – Today
Assistant / PostDoc, Environmental Geosciences, University of Basel, Switzerland
2018 – 2019
Visiting researcher, Pentland Centre, Lancaster University, United Kingdom
Education
2019 PhD in Soil Science, Department of Soil Science, Lavras Federal University, Brazil / Pentland Centre, Lancaster University, United Kingdom,
A critical evaluation of soil erosion models: case studies from Southeast Brazil,
2016 MSc in Soil Science, Lavras Federal University, Brazil
Modelling soil erosion by water and developing river bathymetry interpolation methods in the Upper Grande River Basin, Brazil
2013 BSc in Agronomy, Lavras Federal University, Brazil