Bruna R. F. Oliveira is an environmental engineer and technologist bridging soil sciences, ecosystem fluxes, and remote sensing to develop nature-based solutions for ecosystem restoration and climate resilience. Her academic foundation includes a Ph.D. in Environmental Technology from Wageningen University (2017) and an M.Sc. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Aveiro (2009).
Throughout her career, Bruna engaged in interdisciplinary research projects addressing critical environmental challenges, such as the indirect effects of wildfires on carbon fluxes, enhancing training and employability in wildfire management, engineering the sponge function of pasture soils to combat desertification, assessing innovative solutions like geotubes and mycotechnosoil to prevent erosion and enhance restoration of burnt forests, developing global models to predict post-fire ecosystem fluxes using remotely sensed data, and modelling wetland restoration impacts on carbon pathways and climate resilience.
In 2024, Bruna was honoured with the Belmiro de Azevedo Foundation prize for biodiversity conservation through the CCforBio project, which focuses on introducing conservation corridors in forest plantations.
Bruna is building a scientific career grounded in a commitment to ecosystem restoration and conservation, advancing environmental knowledge through interdisciplinary research while shaping practical strategies for ecosystem conservation and sustainable land use.
