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Dr. Ricardo ArocaDr. Aroca obtained his bachelor in Biology and Doctorate in Biology and Environmental Sciences at the University of Navarra in 1997 and 2001, respectively . From 2001 and 2004 was a visitor researcher at the University of California San Diego. In 2005 joined the Mycorrhizal group at the Experimental Research Center in Zadin of the Superior Council of Scientific Research (CSIC, Spain). In 2008 joined as a Researcher Leader at the CSIC. His research focuses in the regulation of root water uptake by different environmental agents (abiotic stresses and beneficial soil microbes) and plant hormones. During his time at CSIC he has lead 3 major research projects funded by the Andalucia Junta, and two by the national government plan. Since 2010 he has signed R+D contract with the TIMAC-AGRO multinational corporation to develop biofertilizers. During this periodo he has published 58 WOS (ex-ISI) research articles highlighting the description of the first aquaporin cloned from a mycorrhizal fungi (Mol Plant-Microbe Interact 2009), the effect of jasmonate in root water uptake (Plant Cell Environ 2014) and the first description of the effect of beneficial bacteria (PGPRs) on water absorption, and the importance of abscisic acid and ethylene in the PGPR-plant interaction (Planta 2010, BMC Plant Biol 2014, Mol Plant-Microb Interact 2018).
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Dr. Abad ChabbiDr. CHABBI is a plant ecologist and soil biogeochemist. He worked at the Louisiana State University, USA; the Faculty of Environmental Science in Cottbus, Germany; the University of Pierre & Marie, Curie (UPMC), France; and the INRA research council where he has been leading the National Observatory for Environmental Research-Agro-Ecosystems, Biogechemical Cycles and Biodiversity since 2009. Abad Chabbi is currently Director of Research at the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) and his research centers on the linkage between soil carbon sequestration, nutrient availability and stoichiometry in the plant-soil system and their relations to land use management and climate change. He is also working with strategic Research Infrastructures and interested in science policy and societal challenges. Throughout his career, Abad Chabbi has focused on coordinating international and multidisciplinary projects under the strategic European Commission framework. He also chairs a Working Group at the Joint FAO/IAEA Division of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture, at the Hercules Foundation for Investments in Research and Innovation”, Brussels, at Canada Foundation for Innovation, Ottawa… and provides expertise to the German Research Science Foundation, the European Commission’s Direction of Research and Innovation as well as the Chinese Academy of Science, the American National Science Foundation and the Academy of Finland Grant Review.
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Dra. Claudia CzimzikAssociate Professor at the Department of Earth System Sciences at the University of California, Irvine
Claudia received her undergraduate and graduate education in Germany, and obtained a Diplom in Geoecology from the University of Bayreuth (1999) and a PhD from the Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry and Friedrich-Schiller-University (2003) in Jena. She joined UCI’s Department of Earth System Science (ESS) as a researcher in 2003, and the faculty in 2011
Studies the impacts of climate change, alterations in natural disturbance frequencies (i.e. fire) and changes in land use and management (i.e. urbanization) on the cycling of carbon and nitrogen in terrestrial ecosystems. Appreciates and predicts how human activities will impact the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems in the future and how changing terrestrial ecosystems will feedback to the climate system. Focuses on high-latitude ecosystems (arctic tundra and boreal forests). Expert in how climate and land-use change affect the storage of carbon in land ecosystems and the exchange of carbon dioxide, methane and carbonaceous aerosols between the land and the atmosphere. Key interests: Climate change, Soil, Boreal and Arctic Ecosystems, Mega-Cities. More Info: https://faculty.sites.uci.edu/czimczik/ |
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Dr. Davey JonesProfessor of Soil and Environmental Sciences
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Dr. Laurent PhilippotResearcher, French National Institute for Agronomic Research (INRA). Dijon, FranceThe research theme of his group is to understand the ecology of soil microbial communities, especially those involved in nitrogen cycling. They mostly focus on denitrification, which is a microbial respiratory process consisting in the reduction of soluble nitrogen forms, nitrate and nitrite, into gas, nitric oxide, nitrous oxide and dinitrogen when oxygen is limited. Denitrification is the main biological process responsible for the return of fixed nitrogen to the atmosphere, thus completing the N-cycle. It is also responsible together with nitrification for the loss of nitrogen, an essential plant nutrient and for the emission of N2O, an important greenhouse gas.
His group is currently using N-cycling as model traits for bridging microbial community ecology, microbial processes and ecosystem functioning. For this purpose, both temporal and spatial patterns of microbial community activity, diversity and abundance are investigated. More info: Laurent's Site |
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Dr. Cornelia RumpelResearch Director, French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). Paris, France
Dr. Rumpel is Researcher Director of the French National Center of Scientific Research (CNRS) at the Institute of Ecology and Environmental Sciences in Paris. She hold a diploma in Forestry ay the University of München and obtained her Doctorate at the Brandenburg University of Technology and habilitation at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI) in Biogeochemistry and hold a postdoctoral position at both Technical University of München and Brandenburg. She was an Assistant Professor at Technical University of München. She is also leader of the Paris Soil Organic Matter Group. Her work is concerned with the dynamics of organic matter at the molecular scale and the biogeochemical cycling of carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus in terrestrial ecosystems. During her 25 years lasting carrier, she studied the origin and fate of of organic matter in several environments, ranging from soils and sediments in coal mining areas to organic matter in natural as well as managed ecosystems, including those affected by fire. Her work is dealing with temperate and tropical environments. Since a few years she is interested in the development of innovative organic amendments and smart fertilisers. She supervised 15 PhD students to successful completion of their thesis and has published more than 170 papers in international peer reviewed journals. In 2016 and 2017 she was listed as a highly cited researchers in the field of agronomy. Cornelia is engaged in the international 4 per 1000 initiative as the chair of the scientific and technical committee.
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