Dr. Françoise Watteau is a Research Engineer at the Université de Lorraine. She received her Ph.D. in Pedology from the University of Nancy in 1990. From 1990 to 1994, she obtained professional experience in an environmental and industrial risk engineering office. From 1995 to the present, she has worked for the CNRS, receiving an assignment in 2002 to the LSE. From 2004 to the present, her research was valorized through the creation in 2007 of the company Microhumus, which specializes in organic soil improvers and composts. Her research activities concern the study at different scales of the dynamics of organic matter and organo-mineral microstructures within soils, revealing their bio-functioning and evolution. Her research interests include soil, composting, soil analysis, carbon sequestration, soil biology, soil characterization, soil science, organic matter, environmental science, and soil fertility.
Dr. Jean Louis Morel is a professor of environmental biology at the University of Lorraine. His research interests include the dynamics of pollutants (metals and hydrocarbons) in soil–plant systems, evolution of soils strongly affected by human activities (urban soils), and applications for soil remediation (phytoremediation, agromining, and soil restoration). He created and led, until 2012, the Laboratoire Sols et Environnement UMR 1120 INPL-INRA. He is the leader for LSE of the International Joint Lab Ecoland created with the School of Environmental Sciences and Engineering of Sun Yat-sen University. He leads the GISFI, a scientific consortium of 10 research groups devoted to the understanding of the functioning of brownfields and the development of processes for soil remediation. He is involved in the project LabEx “Ressources21” for the recovery of strategic metals from soils and wastes. He was a member of the Conseil National des Universités (2004-2012) and the vice-president for research at the university (2002-2006). He is now a member of the board of regents of the University of Lorraine and in charge of international strategy. At the national level, he is a member of the scientific council of Ademe, the Fondation pour la Recherche sur la Biodiversité, and Plante & Cité. From 2007 to 2015, he chaired the international SUITMA group (soils in urban, industrial, traffic, mining, and military areas) of the International Union for Soil Science.
Dr. Yetao Tang is an associate professor at Sun Yat-Sen University, working on environmental management and contaminated soil remediation. He received a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Chemistry degree from the Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nanjing University, in 1995. Then, he received Master of Science in Environmental Science and Doctor of Science in Environmental Science degrees from the School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, in 2000 and 2009, respectively. His research interests include biological roles of heavy metals and interactions between heavy metals and plants occurring either in or beyond the rhizosphere. His recent focus is on isotopic tracing of toxic metals for an insight into their transport and function in organisms.
