Cécillon Lauric

I am a research scientist (CR1) at Irstea (Land Department), where I conduct research in soil biogeochemistry.
I am particularly interested in the carbon cycle in soils.Carbon storage in soils is in the heart of the international initiative 4 per 1000, a mechanism in the Lima-Paris Action Agenda (LPAA) which aims to show that agriculture can provide solutions contributing to both food security and climate change mitigation.
My fundamental work on understanding the mechanisms of carbon sequestration in soils at multiple scales, and my applied research developing a routine metrology of carbon residence time in soils (durability of C storage) are carried out in collaboration with key R&D French stakeholders on the subject (Ens, CNRS, CEA, UPMC, INRA, AgroParisTech, FCBA, NFB, ADEME) and many international partners.

Two important points have convinced me to co-lead with Celine Granjou the AlpSols project of the labex ITEM:
(i)    my passion for soil, shown by Jean-Michel Gobat as a living multifunctional crossroads, in the heart of many societal challenges,
(ii)    the need for interdisciplinarity to study and understand soils and my personal taste for the so-called “indiscipline” by Dominique Wolton.

I have authored and co-authored 25 scientific papers in international journals indexed by ISI (October 2016).