The MARVIC team is composed of around one hundred experts from 16 organisations across 12 countries. Among these partners are many young researchers and professionals who are working hard to drive the project forward and contribute to a Europe-wide movement supporting regenerative agriculture and healthy soils.
Last May, some of these young partners took part in MARVIC’s General Assembly in Denmark, offering a valuable opportunity for other project members and now the general public to get to know them. Here, we present six members of the project's younger generation. They contribute to various work packages, Land Use × Soil Types, and Test Cases, and represent organisations from six different countries. Meet them now:
Célia Ruau is an Agricultural Engineer at Agrosolutions Consulting (France). She supports all kinds of agricultural players in the low-carbon transition, from defining their strategy to monitoring, reporting and verification.
Joost Cruijsen is a Researcher on soil and water at Wageningen Environmental Research (Netherlands). He works on soil monitoring and data analyses.
Karina Marques (Esférico, previously at SAE Innova) is a Ph.D. in Soil Science with expertise at the intersection of soil science, geoinformatics, earth observation, and modelling, with a strong focus on carbon farming and the development of a robust MRV system
Elena Larysch is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Freiburg (Germany). She investigates forest growth and wood formation, modelling climate and fructification impacts as well as carbon sequestration and biomass accumulation in single trees, forests and agroforestry systems.
Marcus Cheuk Hei Tong is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Aarhus University (Denmark). He specializes in peatland carbon balance and greenhouse gas emissions, with a focus on using Eddy Covariance to investigate how rewetting influences carbon dioxide and methane fluxes in these ecosystems.
Diana Escobar is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart (Italy). Economist specialised in agricultural sustainability, circularity, and policy, she works on participatory policy design in the MARVIC project.
