Dr. Tássia Mattos Brighenti is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development at Iowa State University, in the Iowa UrbanFEWS project. Her work involves the use of the SWAT model to evaluate the environmental and agronomic performance of a suite of cropping systems, including row crops, and perennial grasses and/or horticultural crops, across multiple watershed scales in the Des Moines area.

Tássia has M.S. (2013–2015) and a Ph.D. (2015–2019) degrees in Environmental Engineering from Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil.