MªPilar Cendrero-Mateo, PhD
I am currently a Ramón y Cajal Fellow at the Desertification Research Centre (CIDE, CSIC-UV-GVA), having been a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Valencia’s Laboratory of Earth Observation since 2018. My research focuses on integrating remote sensing data to develop biophysical plant trait and photosynthetic rate products for the early detection of stress. Following my graduation in Environmental Science in 2008 and completion of a Master’s in Remote Sensing in 2010, I earned my PhD at the University of Arizona, specializing in sun-induced fluorescence (SIF) and its link to plant stress. I furthered my expertise at Forschungszentrum Jülich, where I focused on leaf-to-canopy SIF scaling and contributed to the German Plant Phenotyping Programme (DPPN) and ESA FLEX Cal/Val campaigns. I currently lead several national and international initiatives in plant phenotyping and FLEX calibration/validation, most notably as Principal Investigator and coordinator of the GreenCrops project.
