Cernas

CERNAS

Research Center
for Natural Resources,
Envioronment and Society

Carla Sofia Santos Ferreira

Carla Sofia Santos Ferreira
Carla Ferreira has a European doctoral degree in Environmental Science and Engineering by University of Aveiro, since 2015. She an auxiliary researcher at Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra (IPC), and has worked as a researcher at Stockholm University, IPC, Portugal, and Swansea University, UK. She is Member of the Executive Committee of CERNAS and Research Area Leader for Environment and Society of CERNAS. She is a Committee Member of the Soil System Sciences sub-division “Soil Erosion and Conservation” of the European Geosciences Union. She has been involved in several national and international research projects, some of them as scientific coordinator, regarding environmental sciences and engineering, focusing on land degradation driven by urbanization, intensive agriculture and wildfires, and how to use nature-based solutions, ecosystem services, and sustainable land-use planning to mitigate degradation and adapt to climate change. She has been actively involved in the editorial board of international scientific journals and in the organization of numerous scientific events. She has been active in collaborating with scientists from all over the world.