Sophia Bahddou

Areas of expertise

• Soil
• Sustainable Land Systems

Background

Sophia Bahddou obtained her degree in Rural Engineering (Water, Environment and Infrastructures) from Hassan II Institute of Agronomy and Veterinary in Morocco. Her graduation project was conducted in the National Office of Electricity and Drinking Water (ONEE) in Rabat and was directed at designing a completely mixed aerated lagoon and assessing its technical performance. Sophia moved to Spain to pursue a 2-year MSc in Integrated Planning for Rural Development and Environmental Management at the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Zaragoza (IAMZ) of the International Centre of Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies (CIHEAM). Her Master thesis was about water and energy savings in collective pressurized irrigation networks through improvements in the management of on-farm irrigation, which was carried out at the Irrigation, Agronomy and Environment department of the Estacíon Experimental de Aula Dei (EEAD-CSIC) in Zaragoza. Right after obtaining her MSc degree with a Cum Maxima Laude distinction, Sophia has joined the School of Water, Energy and Environment at Cranfield University (UK) to conduct her PhD research in collaboration with Rothamsted Research (UK) and the Mohamed VI Polytechnic University (Morocco), investigating soil erosion processes driven by rainfall and wind, as well as the interactions between plants and soil physical properties.

Publications

• Articles in journals