Dr. Mahrooz Rezaei

Mahrooz Rezaei serves as Associate Professor at Wageningen University & Research, holding joint appointments in the Meteorology and Air Quality Group and Soil Physics and Land Management Group. Her research focuses on wind erosion, dust emission, air quality, and the transport of pollutants including microplastics in terrestrial environments. After establishing herself as a leading expert in wind erosion and soil physics, she has built an impressive research portfolio combining field experiments, remote sensing, and machine learning approaches to understand environmental transport processes. Her groundbreaking work on wind-driven transport of microplastics has garnered significant attention, with her 2019 paper in Science of the Total Environment being widely cited. She currently leads several research projects examining the intersection of soil physics, air quality, and pollutant transport, while supervising multiple PhD candidates. Her recent work employs advanced machine learning techniques to predict wind erosion patterns and develops innovative approaches to tracking pollutant movement across the soil-atmosphere continuum. Through her research and teaching at Wageningen, she continues to advance understanding of environmental transport processes and their implications for ecosystem health.