Prof. Dr. Claudivan Feitosa de Lacerda is an Associate Professor at the Department of Agricultural Engineering at the Center for Agricultural Sciences at the Federal University of Ceará. He is also a Researcher at the National Institute of Science and Technology in Sustainable Agriculture in the Tropical Semiarid (INCTAgriS) and a CNPq Productivity Fellow. He received a Bachelor's degree in Agronomy in 1991, a Master's degree in Soils and Plant Nutrition in 1995, and a Ph.D. degree in Plant Physiology in 2000 from the Federal University of Viçosa. He completed a postdoctoral internship at the US Salinity Laboratory and University of California Riverside (2014). His main research focuses on biosaline agriculture; efficiency in the use of water and nutrients; plant tolerance to salinity; supplemental irrigation; use of saline and waste water in irrigation; management of saline and sodic soils; and plant ecophysiology.