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BIO SUMMARY

Dr. Sahila Beegum is a Research Assistant Professor at the Nebraska Water Center, University of Nebraska–Lincoln (since October 2023), while also continuing her role as an Agricultural Engineer with the Adaptive Cropping Systems Laboratory at USDA-ARS in Beltsville, MD, a position she has held since 2021.

With expertise in soil, groundwater, and mechanistic process-based crop modeling, her research interests lie in developing and improving the mathematical representation of soil–crop–atmospheric interactions. Specifically, her work focuses on various aspects of soil, including water and solute transport in unsaturated and saturated soil zones, the dynamics of soil carbon, nitrogen, and gas transport, as well as soil carbon dioxide respiration in agricultural regions. In agriculture and crop modeling, she has contributed to the development and enhancement of crop model components such as transpiration, photosynthesis, and yield quality. Additionally, she possesses strong skills in simulation model conceptualization and development, data analysis, statistics, and spatial data analysis.

She is the recipient of Fulbright Fellowship, DAAD-IGCS Fellowship, scholarships for her Master's and PhD studies, postdoctoral programs, and multiple travel fellowships. She has served as a visiting researcher at the University of California, Riverside, USA, and at Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany. Dr. Beegum earned her doctoral degree from the Hydraulics and Water Resources Engineering Division at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India; her Master's degree is in Hydraulics and Water Resources Engineering, and her Bachelor's degree is in Civil Engineering. When she is not immersed in research, she is an artist working with oil paint on canvas, and her art has earned recognition from the former President of India.

SOIL-PLANT ATMOSPHERIC CONTINUUM RESEARCH GROUP

She is working towards establishing a Soil-Plant Atmospheric Continuum Research group to advance her research in this direction.

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