Ibrahim Khalil

Currently working as a Senior Agri-Environmental Systems Scientist and Modeller (Senior Research Fellow) attached to UCD School of Agriculture and Food Science. Immediately before, worked as a senior researcher attached to UCD and as a Research Officer at Teagasc Environment Research Centre, Wexford, Ireland. During the mentioned periods, acted as a project coordinator/co-coordinator/manager, partner and collaborator in various national and EU-funded research projects on emission and mitigation of GHGs from Irish agriculture and modelling as well as supervised/co-supervised the research works of post-doc, post-graduate/PhD, ERASMUS+ and European work placement students. 

Currently coordinating HOLOSEU project "A Comprehensive Digital Platform for Land Use Planning, Carbon Footprinting and Decision-Making in European Agriculture" funded by ERA-NET Co-Funcd ICT-AGRI-FOOD and leading a project "HOLOS-IE", developing a comprehensive agricultural systems-based digital platform/software, funded by the Science Foundation and co-leading/managing the "ReLive" project funded by ERA-NET through DAFM, Ireland.

Founded "Climate Resilient Agri-Environmental Systems (CRAES)" - A multi-disciplinary group for research, education and outreach to help mitigate climate change, reduce environmental pollution, and ensure food security, leading to convening "International Symposium in Climate-Resilient Agri-Environmental Systems (ISCRAES; www.iscraes.org), holding biennially. 

Following completion of MS and PhD in Environmental Soil Chemistry under a twining programme between Ghent University Belgium and Universiti Putra Malaysia, did post-doctoral research for >4 years in the UK, Germany and Japan with prestigious fellowships awarded by the Royal Society, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, respectively.

Also a former Senior Scientific Officer of Bangladesh Institute of Nuclear Agriculture, Mymensingh, with research focused on soil-water-nutrient interactions in agricultural soils. Published more than 200 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals/proceedings/popular/book chapters, supervised scientific staff and post-graduate students, offered special classes to under- and post-graduate students, editorial board members, and reviewer of several international journals, evaluated PhD proposals, secured research funding from national and international funding bodies, etc.