Osvaldo Salazar attended the University of Chile where he received an Agronomist degree (2004). He received his post-graduate education at the Department of Soil and Environment, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Sweden, where he obtained his Master of Science degree with a major in Soil Sciences (2003) and his PhD degree in the subject of Soil Sciences with a specialization in hydrotechnics (2009). He gained a post-doc position at the Basic Science and Environment Department, University of Copenhagen, Denmark (2010). Nowadays, he is Associate Professor at the Department of Soil and Engineering, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Chile, where he teaches and conducts research mainly in soil fertility and soil nitrogen dynamics. Since 2020, he is the INI Latin America Centre Director.