Houda Oueriemmi received her Ph.D. in Geological Sciences from the Higher Institute of Sciences and Techniques of Water of Gabès in 2022. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Arid Regions in Tunisia. She has been actively involved in research projects, including the Prima Project, and has contributed significantly to international congress such as the International Union of Soil Sciences. Her research topics mainly include soil amendments, biochar, compost utilization, soil fertility, and plant-soil interactions.
Rahma Inès Zoghlami received her Ph.D. in Soil Science from the National Institute of Agronomy, Tunis in 20217 and is now pursuing research in soil amendments biochar /compost waste management. She worked as a Professor (Assistant) at the Laboratory of Arid Regions Institute from 2018 to 2022. In 2023, she joined the National Institute of Agronomic Research of Tunisia to continue her research. Her research topics mainly include soil fertility, microbial ecology, and sustainable agriculture.
Elie Le Guyader received his Ph.D in 2023 in Soil science and is now pursuing research in improving soil fertility in arid and semi-arid regions using local organic date palm residues. He worked as a Ph.D student in GEGENA Reims in 2021. His research topics mainly include soil fertility, compost, biochar.
Yosra Suidi received her Ph.D in Geological Sciences from the Faculty of Sciences of Sfax in 2021. She worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Arid Regions in Tunisia. She has been actively involved in research projects, including the Prima Project. Her research topics mainly include water science, environmental science, and soil science.
Xavier Morvan has been a Lecturer at the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA) since 2008. His research activities include: Water dynamics in soils (water retention, hydraulic conductivity), physical properties of soils (structural stability, bulk density), water transfer in the unsaturated zone, transfer of plant protection products in the unsaturated and saturated zones, spatialization of data using GIS tools.
Dr. Mohamed Ouessar has a doctorate in Applied Biological Sciences (Land management) from the University of Ghent in Belgium. He is currently a senior researcher at the Arid Zone Research Institute (Institut des Régions Arides) (IRA) (Médenine, Tunisia) and the coordinator of the RS and GIS Unit of his institute. He is serving also as the Responsible for the Training and Capacity Building Section. Since his appointment as researcher at IRA in 1994, he has contributed actively, as coordinator or team member, to the realization of numerous joint research projects funded by national and international agencies (WB, ABOS, EU, CSFD, UNU, USDA, UNESCO, etc.). His research programs focused mainly on water harvesting, GIS based hydrological modeling and decision support systems, impact assessment, watershed management, climate change impacts and adaptation, combating desertification, and drylands management.
