Farina de Waard is a doctoral student in the Remote Sensing and Geoinformation Processing group and in the Moorland Science and Palaeoecology group. Her PhD focuses on the remote sensing spatio-temporal investigation of peatland degradation in northern Germany.
In 2019, she completed her Master's degree in Biodiversity and Ecology at the University of Greifswald with a Master's thesis on global distributions and trends of peatland fires and subsequently worked for the Greifswald Moor Centrum and the Global Peatland Database. Since January 2021, her doctorate has been funded by a scholarship from the Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt.