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Nuria Gomez-Casanovas
- She/Her/Hers
- Assistant Professor in Regenerative System Ecology
- Office:
- Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center at Vernon
- Email:
- nuri.gomez-casanovas@ag.tamu.edu
- Phone:
- (940) 647-3912
- Website: https://sites.google.com/view/gomez-casanovas/home
Education
- Undergraduate Education
- B.S. Biology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- Graduate Education
- Ph.D. Biology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Areas of Expertise
- Food
- Energy and environmental security
- Biogeochemistry
- Agroecology
- Regenerative agriculture
Professional Summary
Nuria Gomez-Casanovas, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor at Texas A&M AgriLife Research Center at Vernon. She works at the nexus of environment, energy and food security to find answers to a critical question: How can we sustainably meet the demand for plant biomass to provide sufficient food, feed and energy with an increasing global population of 11 billion people while improving the resilience and sustainability of agricultural and managed land? She combines lab, field and modeling experiments in a holistic way to tackle this grand challenge integrating and expanding on mechanistic knowledge of biogeochemical cycles. She has published numerous articles in esteemed journals and has been successful at engaging with diverse stakeholders through her work at commercial and private ranches. Nuria has been awarded numerous grants from both private and federal funding for a total of over $ 12.2 M since 2016.