Cibele Amaral holds a D.Sc. degree in Geosciences from the University of São Paulo in Brazil. Her academic journey includes visiting scholar positions and roles at several global institutions, such as the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in Australia, the Federal University of Viçosa and the National Space Research Institute (INPE) in Brazil, and the University of California Santa Barbara and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in the United States. Amaral has extensive experience in multi-modal remote sensing techniques aimed at understanding and informing plant ecology and management at various scales, from genotype to global levels. Her expertise encompasses reflectance spectroscopy and lidar data collection and processing, as well as the integration and analysis of multi-source, cross-scale spatial data using advanced artificial intelligence methods and scalable computing tools. In recent years, she has developed open-source tools and designed open data and cloud computing systems to support innovative synthesis research in ecology and environmental sciences. Currently, Amaral manages large teams of data scientists and research assistants and oversees the analytics and cyberinfrastructure programs for ESIIL and Earth Lab at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at the University of Colorado Boulder.