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Ana Paz has a multidisciplinary background, holding a PhD in Energy and Environmental Engineering from Mälardalen University, Sweden (2010), and a Msc in Agricultural Engineering from the School of Agriculture, University of Lisbon (2004). In 2010, she was invited researcher at the Russel Research Center of the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Athens, Georgia. Since 2017, she has been a researcher at the Soil Laboratory of the Portuguese National Institute of Agricultural and Veterinary Research (INIAV). Over the past five years, she has participated in five international projects, leading and co-leading work packages and tasks. During the same period, she co-authored ten journal articles , including two as first author that rank above the 95% citation percentile in their field (Scopus metrics; February 2026).
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Ana Marta Paz

Citation names

  • Paz, Ana Marta
  • Ana Paz

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
6D13-DF0B-DA0C
ORCID iD
0000-0001-7276-8447
Researcher Id
K-4398-2012
Scopus Author Id
57208888616

Knowledge fields

  • Agrarian Sciences

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
English Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Swedish Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Education
Degree Classification
2007 - 2010/12/16
Concluded
 PhD in Energy and Environmental Engineering (Doctor of Philosophy)
Mälardalen University, Sweden
"Dielectric properties of solid biofuels" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2006 - 2008
Concluded
 Licentiate in Energy and Environmental Engineering (Licencjat)
Mälardalen University, Sweden
"Water content measurement in woody biomass - using the dieletric constant at radio frequencies" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
1998 - 2004
Concluded
 MSc in Agricultural Engineering (Mestrado integrado)
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
"Pedotransfer functions for determination of the soil water retention curve" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution		 Employer
2017/11/01 - Current Researcher (Research) Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária, Portugal
2014/07 - 2015/01 Researcher (Research) Instituto Dom Luiz, Portugal
2006/02 - 2010/12 Researcher (Research) Mälardalen University, Sweden
2004/03 - 2004/08 Researcher (Research) Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution		 Employer
2024 - 2026 Invited Adjunct Teacher (Polytechnic Teacher) International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies (CIHEAM), Italy
2016 - 2019 Invited Adjunct Teacher (Polytechnic Teacher) Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal, Portugal
Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal Escola Superior de Tecnologia do Barreiro, Portugal
2013/09 - 2014/02 Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Instituto Universitário da Maia, Portugal
Instituto Universitário da Maia, Portugal

Other Careers

Category
Host institution		 Employer
2015/11/01 - 2017/10/31 Técnico Superior (Técnico Superior) Direção-Geral de Energia e Geologia, Portugal
2011/09 - 2013/08 Técnico Superior (Técnico Superior) Yser Green Energy, SA, Portugal
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2025/02/01 - Current Agrosalt - Innovative monitoring approaches for soil salinity assessment in agricultural areas
2023.17390.ICDT
10.54499/2023.17390.ICDT
Researcher
Ongoing
2024 - Current LILAS4SOILS - Fostering Carbon Farming Practices through LIving LAbS in the Mediterranean and Southern EU for the healthy future of European SOILS
101157414
Researcher
European Commission
Ongoing
2022/03/21 - 2025/03/20 SoilSalAdapt - Preadapting soil biology for increased tolerance to elevated salinities due to climate change
EJPSoils/0003/2021
Principal investigator
Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2021/02/01 - 2025/01/31 CarboSeq - Soil organic carbon sequestration potential of agricultural soils in Europe
862695
Researcher
Horizon 2020
Concluded
2020/02/01 - 2025/01/31 EJP Soil - Towards climate-smart sustainable management of agricultural soils
Grant Agreement no 862695
Researcher
Horizon 2020
Concluded
2023 - 2025 AgroClima - Quantify the effects of agri-environmental measures on increasing soil carbon sequestration and reducing GHG emissions
PRR-C05-i03-I-000017
Researcher
Ongoing
2021/02/01 - 2024/02/01 Steropes - Stimulating novel Technologies from Earth Remote Observation to Predict European Soil carbon
H2020: 862695
Principal investigator
Horizon 2020
Concluded
2018/10/01 - 2021/09/30 Soil4ever
PTDC/ASP-SOL/28796/2017
Researcher
Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2016 - 2019 SALTFREE - Salinization in irrigated areas: risk evaluation and prevention
FCT/5876-PPCDTI/111706/PT
Researcher
Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Journal article
  1. Farzamian, Mohammad; Castanheira, Nádia; Gonçalves, Maria C.; Freitas, Pedro; Saberioon, Mohammadmehdi; Ramos, Tiago B.; Antunes, João; Paz, Ana Marta. "Predicting Soil Organic Carbon from Sentinel-2 Imagery and Regional Calibration Approach in Salt-Affected Agricultural Lands: Feasibility and Influence of Soil Properties". Remote Sensing 17 16 (2025): 2877. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs17162877.
    10.3390/rs17162877
  2. Paz, Ana Marta; Castanheira, Nádia; Miloczki, Julia; Carrasco, Mariana; Vicente, Carolina; Carranca, Corina; Gonçalves, Maria Conceição; et al. "Collected knowledge on the impacts of agricultural soil management practices in Europe". European Journal of Soil Science 75 2 (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ejss.13468.
    10.1111/ejss.13468
  3. Paz, Maria Catarina; Castanheira, Nádia Luísa; Paz, Ana Marta; Gonçalves, Maria Conceição; Monteiro Santos, Fernando; Farzamian, Mohammad. "Comparison of Electromagnetic Induction and Electrical Resistivity Tomography in Assessing Soil Salinity: Insights from Four Plots with Distinct Soil Salinity Levels". Land 13 3 (2024): 295. https://doi.org/10.3390/land13030295.
    10.3390/land13030295
  4. Ana Marta Paz; Esperanza Amezketa; Loredana Canfora; Nadia Castanheira; Gloria Falsone; Maria C. Gonçalves; Ian Gould; et al. "Salt-affected soils: field-scale strategies for prevention, mitigation, and adaptation to salt accumulation". Italian Journal of Agronomy (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/ija.2023.2166.
    10.4081/ija.2023.2166
  5. Mohammad Farzamian; Fethi Bouksila; Ana Marta Paz; Fernando Monteiro Santos; Nessrine Zemni; Fairouz Slama; Abir Ben Slimane; Tarek Selim; John Triantafilis. "Landscape-scale mapping of soil salinity with multi-height electromagnetic induction and quasi-3d inversion in Saharan Oasis, Tunisia". Agricultural Water Management 284 (2023): 108330-108330. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2023.108330.
    10.1016/j.agwat.2023.108330
  6. Tiago B. Ramos; Hanaa Darouich; Ana R. Oliveira; Mohammad Farzamian; Tomás Monteiro; Nádia Castanheira; Ana Paz; et al. "Water use, soil water balance and soil salinization risks of Mediterranean tree orchards in southern Portugal under current climate variability: Issues for salinity control and irrigation management". Agricultural Water Management 283 (2023): 108319-108319. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2023.108319.
    10.1016/j.agwat.2023.108319
  7. Tiago B. Ramos; Hanaa Darouich; Ana R. Oliveira; Mohammad Farzamian; Tomás Monteiro; Nádia Castanheira; Ana Paz; Maria C. Gonçalves; Luís S. Pereira. "Water use and soil water balance of Mediterranean tree crops assessed with the SIMDualKc model in orchards of southern Portugal". Agricultural Water Management 279 (2022): 108209. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2023.108209.
    10.1016/j.agwat.2023.108209
  8. "Soil salinity assessment using vegetation indices derived from Sentinel-2 multispectral data. application to Lezíria Grande, Portugal". Agricultural Water Management 241 (2020): 106387-106387. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2020.106387.
    10.1016/j.agwat.2020.106387
  9. "Assessing soil salinity dynamics using time-lapse electromagnetic conductivity imaging". SOIL (2020): https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-6-499-2020.
    doi.org/10.5194/soil-6-499-2020
  10. Paz, Ana Marta Marques Duarte da. "Monitoring soil salinity using time-lapse electromagnetic conductivity imaging". SOIL Discussions (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/soil-2019-99.
    10.5194/soil-2019-99
  11. Paz, Ana Marta; Castanheira, Nádia; Farzamian, Mohammad; Paz, Maria Catarina; Gonçalves, Maria Conceição; Monteiro Santos, Fernando A.; Triantafilis, John. "Prediction of soil salinity and sodicity using electromagnetic conductivity imaging". Geoderma (2019): 114086. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2019.114086.
    10.1016/j.geoderma.2019.114086
  12. Farzamian, Mohammad; Paz, Maria Catarina; Paz, Ana Marta; Castanheira, Nádia Luísa; Gonçalves, Maria Conceição; Monteiro Santos, Fernando A.; Triantafilis, John. "Mapping soil salinity using electromagnetic conductivity imaging—A comparison of regional and location-specific calibrations". Land Degradation & Development 30 12 (2019): 1393-1406. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ldr.3317.
    10.1002/ldr.3317
  13. Paz, Ana Marta Marques Duarte da. "Potential to map soil salinity using inversion modelling of EM38 sensor data". First Break 37 (2019): 35-39.
  14. Trabelsi, Samir; Paz, A.M.; Nelson, Stuart O.. "Microwave dielectric method for the rapid, non-destructive determination of bulk density and moisture content of peanut hull pellets". Biosystems Engineering 115 3 (2013): 332-338.
    Published • 10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2013.04.003
  15. Paz, A.M.; Trabelsi, Samir; Nelson, Stuart O.; Thorin, Eva. "Measurement of the Dielectric Properties of Sawdust Between 0.5 and 15 GHz". IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement 60 10 (2011): 3384-3390.
    Published • 10.1109/TIM.2011.2128510
  16. Paz, A.M.; Thorin, Eva; Topp, Clarke. "Dielectric mixing models for water content determination in woody biomass". Wood Science and Technology 45 2 (2010): 249-259.
    Published • 10.1007/s00226-010-0316-8
Activities

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role		 Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2025/04/01 - 2029/03/30 Can long-term Soil Organic Carbon changes be accurately identified in the short-term?
Co-supervisor
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
2023 - 2023/12/22 Modelling of soil water content and soil salinity with HYDRUS-1D
Co-supervisor
 Mestrado em Enhenharia Agronómica (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role)		 Institution / Organization
2022/06/22 - 2022/06/24 Iberian Congress of Soil Sciences (2022/06/22 - 2022/06/24)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
2021/03/24 - 2021/03/24 EIP-Agri Workshop "Towards Carbon Neutral Agriculture" (2021/03/24 - 2021/03/24)
Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)
2007 - 2007 3rd International Green Energy Conference
Congress (Other)

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role		 Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2023/12/22 Modelling of soil water content and soil salinity with HYDRUS-1D
Thesis Member
 João Antunes (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2018/10 - Current Portuguese Society of Soil Sciences Secretária da Direção

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2024/02/26 - 2026/03/01 Salinity control and management in relation to irrigation Master course in Sustainable Water and Land Management in Agriculture (Master) International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies (CIHEAM), Italy
Distinctions

Title

2020 Member of the Mission Assembly Soil Health and Food (2020-2022)
European Commission Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development, Belgium