After completing a Master’s degree in microbiology with a specialization in plant-microorganism interactions at Claude Bernard University in Lyon, I was hired as a research engineer from January to June 2025 in the EFIS team. During this contract, I worked on several team projects investigating the impact of nutrient availability on the efficiency of arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis.

I began my PhD in October 2025 under the supervision of Benoît Lefebvre and Agnès Ardanuy. My thesis project focuses on the effect of agricultual practices on wheat-associated arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities and their role in wheat nutrition. As a first step, my objective is to characterize the influence of various factors such as the plant’s developmental stage, genotype, nitrogen availability, and the cropping system (conventional vs. conservation agriculture), on wheat mycorrhizal nutrition and the associated arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities, through several field experiments. The second step is to determine whether there is functional variability among the different arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal species within these communities, by constructing and inoculating synthetic communities.