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Matheus Bortolanza Soares

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Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz (ESALQ)  (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal)
Birthplace: Brazil

Agronomy Engineer (2015) and Masters in Agronomy with an emphasis on Soil Science (2017) from the Federal University of Mato Grosso (UFMT), and PhD (2023) in Soil Science and Plant Nutrition from the Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture (ESALQ), University of São Paulo (USP), with a doctoral research internship at North Carolina State University (USA) (2021-2022). Currently a postdoctoral researcher at ESALQ-USP, he was also a visiting postdoctoral researcher at the University of Reading (United Kingdom), in collaboration with the Diamond Light Source (United Kingdom), during the period 2024-2025. His research focuses on the biogeochemistry of potentially toxic elements in soils and sediments remediated with biochar, with particular attention to organo-mineral and organo-metallic interaction mechanisms and the dynamics of inorganic contaminants at the soil-solution interface. His main research areas include the dynamics and speciation of potentially toxic elements, interactions between mineral and organic soil fractions, sorption kinetics of elements in soils and sediments, carbon stability, and microbial community shifts induced by external carbon inputs. He has experience in spectroscopic techniques (AAS, XRD, UV-Vis, FTIR, TOF-SIMS, XAS, XPS), thermal analyses (TGA), magnetic resonance (NMR), and advanced techniques such as scanning transmission X-ray microscopy coupled with near-edge X-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy (STXM-NEXAFS), micro X-ray diffraction (micro-XRD), and micro X-ray fluorescence (micro-XRF). He also has expertise in CO2; emission experiments and carbon isotope (13C) analysis, using C-enriched tracers to assess carbon sequestration and stability processes in biochar-amended soils. His current research includes the study of soils from the Amazon, Pantanal, Cerrado, and Atlantic Forest biomes contaminated with mercury from artisanal gold mining, focusing on the seasonal effects on mercury dynamics, the impact of mining on soil quality, and the development of biomaterials with potential for nanoremediation. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)

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