Beata Madari is agronomist (1994) with PhD (1999) in Soil Science from the Szent István University, Gödöllö, Hungary with studies at the School of Agronomy at Purdue University, Indiana, USA. She worked as research scientist at Embrapa's National Soil Research Center between 2002 and 2005. Since 2005 she is research scientist at the Embrapa National Research Center for Rice and Beans and is professor in post-graduate training in Agronomy at the Federal University of Goiás, Brazil. She was leader of Embrapa's Research Network on Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Grains Crop Production Systems (Embrapa Fluxus Network) and is presently the secretária executiva of Embrapa's committee for research management in climate change (Comitê Gestor do Portfólio em Mudanças Climáticas). She was visiting scientist at the Eco&Sols (Ecologie fonctionnelle & biogéochimie des sols & des agro-systèmes) Mixed Research Unit in Montpellier, France between 2016 and 2019. Accordingly, she has experience in carbon and nitrogen cycling in terrestrial ecosystems, particularly on tropical acid soils under annual crops, but also in integrated crop-livestock-forestry systems on soil carbon sequestration and carbon balance. She has knowledge on soil carbon dynamics and physical and chemical fractionation of soil organic matter. She has worked with methods of soil carbon determination using wet and dry combustion and infrared spectroscopy. She is reviewer of several international scientific journals. She has also contributed to the IPCC on HWP, Wetlands and Soil N2O and to the UN Global Compact Initiative (unglobalcompactorg). She is member of the Scientific and Technical Committee of the 4 per 1000 Initiative - Soil for Food Security and Climate since 2016 and was member of FAO's Livestock Environmental Assessment Partnership's technical advisory group on soil organic carbon stock change (2016-2018). She is author or co-author of 80 research articles.