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Carolina Rivera

Associate Scientist in Wheat Physiology

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ORCID: 0000-0002-3734-9957


Carolina Rivera is a wheat physiologist focused on the identification of novel anatomical stem traits associated with increases in harvest index. As a success case of the MasAgro-CIMMYT PhD program herself, she is responsible of the capacity building component of MasAgro Trigo.

In her role as IWYP Data Coordinator, Rivera manages the CIMMYT-IWYP Wheat Germinate database that hosts the most relevant outputs of the IWYP project and the IWYP Hub. She also leads the improvement of phenotypic data workflows in the Wheat Physiology group.