Presented by Sophia Bahddou – Ph.D. student, Cranfield University
Sophia Bahddou is a Ph.D. student in the School of Water, Energy and Environment at Cranfield University in the UK. Her research is in collaboration with Rothamsted Research in the UK and the Mohamed VI Polytechnic University in Morocco. She is investigating the reduction of soil and water losses in Morocco by developing novel methodological approaches and practical measures that will improve soil physical properties using a better mechanistic understanding of the processes of erosion by water and wind, and their impacts on soil and water resources. Before joining the UK, Sophia pursued 5-year rural engineering studies in the Water, Environment and Infrastructures department at Hassan II Institute of Agronomy and Veterinary in Morocco. She then 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 Estación Experimental de Aula Dei (EEAD-CSIC) in Zaragoza