Artemi Cerda

Professor Artemi Cerdà completed his PhD on the infiltration capacity of Mediterranean soils between 1989 and 1993. His postdoctoral research in the Netherlands, Israel, Bolivia and Extremadura addressed soil hydrology, the impact of climate on geomorphological processes, and the effects of fire and agriculture on soils. As a researcher at the Desertification Research Centre and the Pyrenean Institute of Ecology from 1998 to 2002, he studied the interactions between seeds, plants and erosion, as well as land management and soil erosion in the Pyrenees, work that broadened his view of soil erosion accelerated by human activity. He joined the University of Valencia as Associate Professor in 2002 and has been Full Professor there since 2009. He founded the Soil Erosion and Degradation Research Group and the Soil Erosion Research Stations of Montesa and Serra de Enguera. His research focuses on the effects of agriculture, forest fires and roads on soil erosion, and on finding sustainable management practices for agricultural and forest soils.