Niels Batjes

Niels Batjes is a leading researcher at ISRIC - World Soil Information, specializing in soil data standardization, digital soil mapping, and carbon sequestration modeling. His work focuses on creating harmonized global soil databases like WoSIS and SoilGrids to support climate mitigation and environmental conservation.

• Key Research Areas: Soil Organic Carbon, Digital Soil Mapping, Pedotransfer Functions, Measurement Error Analysis
• Projects: Development of soil databases with quantified uncertainties, HoliSoils initiative for European forest soils

Recent publications highlight his contributions to global soil water retention modeling, interoperable soil data exchange frameworks, and machine learning applications for carbon stock assessment. He plays a central role in international soil data infrastructure development.