Dr Aurélie Métay is Associate professor in agronomy, at Institut Agro Montpellier, and teaches soil management and cover cropping strategies.
She currently works in the Soils, Water, Crops and Livestock Systems Department. Her PhD was carried out ad the IRD, the CIRAD and EMBRAPA, on Carbon sequestration and greenhouse effect gases fluxes – Comparison between no-tillage system and conventional system in the Brazilian Cerrados.
Prior to this, she has worked as Assistant professor in agronomy at ISTOM (www.istom.net), a research programme developed at UMR Eco&Sols (formerly UR SeqBio). Her role as associated scientist focused on organic fertilization of cropping systems (crop residues or organic waste), and experimentation or modelling assessment of N2O fluxes.
