María Agustina Iglesias is an Agricultural Engineer (B.Sc.) and Ph.D. in Agricultural Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires, where she is currently Head of Practical Assignments in Soil Science. She is also a Postdoctoral Fellow at CONICET, with a co-funded fellowship with CREA, working on irrigated agriculture by center pivots in the Chaco-Pampean region of Argentina. Her project integrates satellite analysis, crop modeling, and field validation to assess the expansion, productivity, and environmental impacts of irrigation. Previously, she completed a Bayer-FAUBA postdoctoral fellowship on soil carbon stocks across Argentine croplands and conducted her doctoral research at CRILAR-CONICET on the impacts of deficit irrigation and warming on olive trees.