Gabriella Jorge-Escudero works as an associate professor in the Agroecology section of the Environmental Systems Department at the Agronomy Faculty of Universidad de la República, Uruguay. She graduated as a biologist in 2007 and finished her Master’s degree in environmental sciences in 2012 in the Science Faculty. She was awarded her PhD in 2018, and for her thesis research, she studied the potential of earthworms as biological control agents of fusarium wilt in wheat crops, describing the local earthworm communities and their effects on the fungus as well as conducting toxicological tests with fungicides. She has also researched conservationist soil management and integrated waste management, recycling of organic waste through composting and vermicomposting, and its applications as fertilizers and organic amendments.