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General Information

Full Name Alexandre Wadoux
Date of Birth 19th October 1991
Languages French, English, Spanish, German

Education

  • 2023
    HDR - Habilitation to Supervise Research
    University of Montpellier - France
    • Spatio-temporal modelling of soil biophysical indicators and of functions provided by ecosystems
  • 2019
    PhD
    Wageningen University and Research, the Netherlands
    • Sampling design optimization for geostatistical modelling and prediction.
    • Advisors; Prof. Gerard Heuvelink, Dr. Dick Brus
    • Trainings in hydrology, statistics, modelling, presentation, scientific writing
  • 2018
    Research Master, Epistemology and History of Sciences
    University of Nantes, France
    • Epistemological aspects of soil science in the late nineteenth century
    • Advisor; Prof. Stéphane Tirard
    • Trainings in history of life sciences, mathematics and physics, historical document analysis, epistemology general and concepts
  • 2015
    Master of Science, Landscape System Sciences
    Eberhard-Karl University of Tübingen, Germany
    • Mid-infrared spectroscopy for soil and terrain analysis
    • Advisor; Dr. Leonardo Ramirez-Lopez. In collaboration with the ETH Zurich - Soil and Terrestrial Environmental Physics.
    • Major in Soil Science and Geomorphology; soils and landscape, soils and geomorphology, geoinformatics and ecosystem processes, hydrogeology, soil landscape modeling
  • 2012
    Bachelor in Environmental Geography
    University of Angers, France

Experience

  • Since April 2023
    Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow
    French National Institute for Agriculture, Food, and Environment (INRAE), LISAH group - France
    • Spatial evaluation and quantification of soil multifunctionality potential and actual state across Europe.
    • Collaborations with Soil biology group, Wageningen University and Research
  • 2019-2023
    Research Associate
    University of Sydney - Sydney Institute of Agriculture - Australia
    • Evaluation, quantification and mapping of soil indicators at the regional and national scales in Australia; carbon stocks and sequestration potential, carbon fractions, organic matter stabilization, soil biodiversity and clay minerals.
    • Collaborations with CSIRO Canberra, TERN Australian Soils and Landscapes.
  • 2015-2019
    PhD candidate
    Wageningen University & Research - the Netherlands
    • Marie Curie Initial Training Network (ITN) - Quantifying Uncertainty in Integrated Catchment Studies (QUICS); hydrology, soil, rainfall-runoff. Development of sampling design optimization techniques for soil mapping and hydrological modelling.
  • 2018 - 2 months
    Visiting researcher
    Sydney Institute of Agriculture - Australia
    • Soil spectroscopy and machine learning for mapping soil properties
  • 2017 - 3 months
    Visiting researcher
    British Geological Survey - United Kingdom
    • Developed sampling design optimization methods for geostatistical modelling of soil properties
  • 2016 - 3 months
    Visiting researcher
    Delft University of Technology - the Netherlands
    • Bayesian calibration of rainfall runoff models. Case study in a mountainous catchment in Switzerland
  • 2016 - 2 months
    Visiting researcher
    University of Bristol - United Kingdom
    • Space-time mapping of rainfall over England using radar and rain gauges