Niels is a soil scientist with over 35 years of experience in developing and applying land resources information systems in the framework of international research and capacity building projects. He has special responsibility for the Data (WoSIS) project, is a member of the SoilGrids project team, and contributes to several EU H2020 (IRC_ORCaSa, HoliSoils, Soils4Africa) and other projects. Further, Niels coordinates the actitivities/accreditation of the World Data Centre for Soils (WDC-Soils), a regular member of the International Sience Council World Data System (ISC-WDS).Niels joined ISRIC in 1990 after having worked in East Africa and the Caribbean, mainly as a Land Evaluation Expert. At ISRIC, he contributes to numerous collaborative projects. His special scientific interest is in research on soil carbon stocks and change (in the context of climate change mitigation and adaptation), sustainable land management, land quality indicators, soil data standardisation / harmonisation / analysis to support broad scale soil mapping and continental and global environmental assessments. This is reflected in over 75 peer-reviewed publications (ISI Web of Science h-index 41), several book chapters and numerous technical reports.Niels is a Fellow of the British Society of Soil Science (F.I. Soil Sci.), a member of the Scientific Steering Group of the International Soil Carbon Network (ISCN), CoreTrustSeal Assembly of Reviewers, and Editorial Board of 'Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment'.Note: Opinion's are my own and not my employer's. [ @niels-batjes.bsky.social ]