Julia Shimbo is the scientific coordinator of MapBiomas, a collaborative network of institutions that generates land use and land cover time series. Ecologist with a Master in Geosciences at the São Paulo State University, Ph.D. at the University of Brasília, and part at the University of New Hampshire in the USA. She worked on the National Inventory of Emissions of Greenhouse Gases in Brazil. She did a Postdoc at the Amazon Environmental Research Institute, where she later became a researcher. She also collaborates with the non-governmental System for Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Removals Estimates in Brazil of the Climate Observatory.
