Aditya Bandla, PhD
More carbon in the ground. Less risk on the books.
Carbon accounting treats soil as a static system. Models produce a number — but soil is alive, and whether that carbon stays or leaves depends on biology that standard measurement cannot see. That is where the risk is.
I'm a scientist and strategist with a PhD in Soil Ecology and ten years of applied research across South East Asia. Over eight years I grew into leading a team of scientists and field staff on a landscape-scale peatland carbon programme — directing field campaigns, developing sampling and measurement methodology, and owning the programme's science outputs. I bring an established network across the region and am now expanding into North America.
Standard carbon measurement tells you how much carbon is in the soil. I look at what is happening inside it — the biological processes that determine whether carbon stays or breaks down. That distinction is where permanence risk hides.
I work across the full project lifecycle — from selecting and trialling soil health interventions like microbial inoculants and native transplants, to designing the MRV frameworks that prove they worked.
I bridge the gap between a Nature paper and a bankable credit.