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Organisational unit:	Forest Soils and Biogeochemistry Soil Functions and Soil Protection
Phone:	+41 44 7392 395
Fax:	+41 44 7392 215
Room:	Bi HL B 25
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Address:	Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL Zürcherstrasse 111 8903 Birmensdorf

Education

2009 - 2013	Dr. rer. nat. Pedometrics, Institute of Geography, Eberhard-Karls-University, Tuebingen. Germany. Dissertation: "Sampling design and machine learning optimization for the application of soil sensing data in digital soil mapping"
2007 - 2009	M.Sc. (Soil Science). University of São Paulo. Brazil

Research and professional experience

2013 -	Postdoctoral researcher at Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, WSL. Switzerland.
2011 - 2012	Reseracher at Georges Lemaître Centre for Earth and Climate Research. Université catholique de Louvain. Belgium. Project: "SOC 3D: Three dimensional soil organic carbon (SOC) monitoring using VNIR reflectance spectroscopic techniques"
2009 - 2011	Reseracher at Institute of Geography, Eberhard-Karls-University, Tuebingen. Germany. Project: "iSOIL project: Interactions between soil related sciences – Linking geophysics, soil science and digital soil mapping"
2007 - 2009	Reseracher at soil science department. Escola superior de agricultura "Luiz de Queiroz" University of São Paulo. Brazil Project: "Soil spectrometry and its use in soil mapping"

Research topics

Digital soil mapping
Soil-landscape modelling
Pedometrics
(Spatial) soil data mining and machine learning
Proximal and remote soil sensing
Soil spectroscopy

Publications

Ramirez-Lopez, L., Behrens, T., Schmidt, K., Stevens, A., Demattê, J. A. M., Scholten, T. (2013). The spectrum-based learner: A new local approach for modeling soil vis–NIR spectra of complex datasets. Geoderma, 195, 268-279.

Ramirez-Lopez, L., Behrens, T., Schmidt, K., Viscarra Rossel, R., Demattê, J. A. M., Scholten, T. (2013). Distance and similarity-search metrics for use with soil vis–NIR spectra. Geoderma 199, 43–53.

Invited courses

Training course on reflectance spectroscopy and multivariate calibration in R. At: Natural Resources Management Cluster, Centre for Development and Environment, University of Bern. Switzerland. 12- 14th November, 2012. Lecturers: Leonardo Ramirez-Lopez and Antoine Stevens.