Sarchil is a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Geography and Environmental Science at the University of Southampton. He received his BSc degree (Department First) in soil science in 2005 and an MSc degree in applied remote sensing and GIS for drought monitoring from the University of Sulaimani, Kurdistan in 2010. He completed his PhD in the School of Geography and Environmental Science at the University of Southampton/UK in 2016, where his research focused on monitoring decadal land cover and crop production (food security) in conflicted zones using time-series Earth observation data.

Sarchil worked as a Lecturer at the University of Sulaimani/Kurdistan Region/Iraq from 2005 to 2011. He has been on staff in the School of Geography and Environmental Science at the University of Southampton since 2016 and has led and contributed in to variety of projects within the WorldPop research group.

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