Research Assistant
Octavian Puiu Chiriac
At OpenGeoHub, Octavian supports the foundation’s current and future European Commission-funded and other international projects in the development and in the production of global and regional spatial predictions of soil variables.
Specific tasks include but are not limited to:
- • Soil data quality control;
• Soil classification checking;
• Fitting pedotransfer functions;
• Spatial modeling with soil data;
• Interpretation of soil predictions including predictive soil mapping results.
At OpenGeoHub, Octavian is a research assistant, and he will obtain his PhD degree in Agricultural Sciences in June 2026. He has a background in agronomy, soil fertility and digital agriculture.
Doctorate, University of Turin, Italy (Agricultural Sciences), 2026
MSc, University of Turin, Italy (Agricultural Sciences), 2022
BSc, University of Turin, Italy (Agricultural Sciences), 2019