Research Director at the Department of Functional Ecology and Biochemistry of Soils and Agroecosystems of the French Research Institute for Development (IRD)
Topic 1: Quantification of organic carbon and characterisation of soil organic matter at plot and regional scales
Tiphaine Chevallier
Topic 2: Stabilisation of soil organic matter: a central process in C-storing agricultural practices
Claire Chenu
Research Director at the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE)
Professor at AgroParisTech, France
Coordinator of the European Joint Research Programme EJP SOIL
Chair of the Rnest network scientific & technic committee
Topic 3: The role of biodiversity in soil organic matter stabilisation and carbon storage
Petr Baldrian
Head of the Laboratory of Environmental Microbiology at The Czech Academy of Sciences
Professor at the Charles University in Prague
Topic 4: Microbiological, geochemical and matter transfer interactions: an integrated approach
Wilfred Otten
Professor of Soil Biophysics, Soil, Agrifood and Biosciences
Cranfield University, United Kingdom
