“Souben ar pouloudenn” is an old recipe from my native place, north west of Brittany, France. It means “soup of aggregates”, and consists in dropping spoonfuls of base made of buckwheat flour into boiling milk.
This echoes quite well with my academic research, mixing up unexpected ingredients together to better push our knowledge (a bit) forward. And I also like aggregates.
I am interested in organic matter and related biogeochemistry cycles in the terrestrial ecosystems, in particular in the plant-soil system. I have some favorites topics, like fire-derived organic matter, biochar, roots, to cite a few.
Welcome to this blog where I will talk about science, my experience as a scientist and “plus si affinité”…