Mercedes Bustamante

Mercedes Bustamante
Bustamante at the Senate of Future Commission's "2022 The Brazil that We Want"
Born	Chile
Education	University of Rio de Janeiro (B.S.) University of Viçosa (M.S.) University of Trier (Ph.D.)
Scientific career
Fields	Biology
Institutions	University of Brasília

Mercedes Bustamante is a biologist born in Chile. Most of her work takes place in the savannah regions in Brazil called the cerrado biome. Her area of interests are studying large scale impacts on the environment, land usage and biogeochemistry.^[1] Since 1994 she has been a professor at the University of Brasília (UnB), where she is currently the Graduate Coordinator of the Ecology Department. She is a member of the Climate Crisis Advisory Group.^[2]