Education and background
2023 Habilitation to Supervise Research “Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR)”, from the University of Montpellier, with a scientific essay on “Management of agricultural soils and climate: carbon sequestration and emissions of greenhouse gases”. Defense: June 16, 2023.
2017- Seconded to the University of Zimbabwe - Department of Plant Production Sciences and Technologies
2016- Soil scientist and agronomist, researcher at Cirad (French Agricultural Research Center for International Development), UPR AIDA (Agroecology and Sustainable Intensification of Annual Crops).
2012-2015 PhD degree in Soil Science, from the University of Paris-Saclay. Hosted at INRAE (UMR Ecosys) and IRD (UMR Eco&Sols). Thesis: « Carbon storage and soil organic matter dynamics under Mediterranean and temperate agroforestry systems ». Advisors: Prof. Claire Chenu and Dr Tiphaine Chevallier. Thesis defense: November 27, 2015.
2013 Climate-KIC (five-week summer school, entrepreneurship and climate change). Climate-KIC is one of the three Knowledge and Innovation Communities created in 2010 by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology. Climate-KIC is Europe’s largest public-private innovation partnership focused on climate change.
2011-2012 (1 year) ANR funded project ECOSFIX (Ecosystem Services of Roots – Hydraulic Redistribution, Carbon Sequestration and Soil Fixation). INRA, UMR System. In charge of coordinating research at the agroforestry experimental site of Restinclières, pit soil and root sampling, root growth measurements, results’ analyses.
2011 (6 months) AGROOF (engineering office specialized in agroforestry systems) and Regional Chamber of Agriculture. In charge of investigating the potential of development of agroforestry systems in southern France within the framework of energy and climate territorial plans (mapping with ArcGIS, survey of farmers).
2011 MSc degree in Agronomy at AgroParisTech, the Life and Environmental Science and Technology department of ParisTech, the Paris Institute of Technology, which is a consortium of 10 of the foremost French Graduate Institutes in Science and Engineering.
2010 (6 months) CARBOSOIL project (Getting a better understanding of soil carbon dynamics in order to improve its modelling within a context of climate change). INRA, UMR Bioemco. In charge of modelling carbon dynamics and priming effect in a long-term experiment.
2009 (6 months) University of Guelph, School of Environmental Sciences, Ontario, Canada. In charge of quantifying organic carbon and nitrogen pools in an agroforestry system.