Françoise Binet (FB) is principal director of research in the ECOBIO research unit, a joint unit between the CNRS and the University of Rennes that she led for 8 consecutive years (2011-2018). FB is expert of soil biology and functional ecology of terrestrial ecosystems. Her research focuses on man-made landscapes from low (grasslands, heathlands) to high managed ecosystems (cropped fields, urban soils). FB has been looking at the soil biodiversity, including microbiota, that sustains biogeochemical cycling (C,N,P & S), through an interdisciplinarity-based strategy (microbiology, genomics, molecular physics ,analytical chemistry). Supervision of 17 PhD students, 2 ongoings, most of them getting academic position or private jobs in environment and agriculture sectors. 90 publications out of which 42 in international journals H: 25; Pi or co-Pi for 16 research projects in the past 10 years (2012-2022), out of which 4 are running (CNRS MITI, European SAD, CPER , Fondation FFS) and another one just starting (IPEV project), some involving european collaborations maily with Denmark, Sweden and Germany. Having worked by the past for enterprises, FB is also experienced with operational agencies and stakeholders (currently with ADEME, SA BIO3G company, OFB agency). FB has also several ongoing responsabilities in scientific management, evaluation, or expertise for CNRS and IRD institutes and for the DG research Europe, and in master program of Ecology at the university.

Biochemistry
Biogeochemistry
Biology of interactions
Ecology
Flow of energy and matter
Landscape ecology
Microbiology
Pedology
Plant Sciences

looking to join the Consheath project with Aarrhus university (Pi : C Damgaard) on heathlands resilience

environmental and soil sciences, functional ecology, biogeochemical cycling, environmental microbiology, soil -plant interactions, soil microbiomes, c gas emissions, organic matter dynamics, ecosystem services

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