Yolima Carrillo is an Associate Professor of Biogeochemistry at the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Australia. Her group focuses on carbon and nutrient cycling and their regulation by plant-root-microbe interactions and global environmental change. They employ a variety of methods from microbial and ecosystem ecology, as well as stable isotope applications, in controlled and field settings. The impact of their work ranges from advancing mechanistic understanding to providing information for the management of natural and agricultural systems.