Team contacts: Boris DELAHAIE or Frédéric GEORGET

Permanent staff

Scientific staff:

 Rémi AUGUSTE | Research Technician (CIRAD)

 Jean-Christophe BREITLER | Research Scientist (CIRAD)

 Jean-Rémy BROSSIER | Research Engineer (CIRAD - 50% with the F2F team)

 Benoît BERTRAND | Research Scientist (CIRAD)

 Boris DELAHAIE | Research Scientist (CIRAD) 

 Hervé ETIENNE | Research Scientist (CIRAD)

 Frédéric GEORGET | Research Scientist (CIRAD)

 Mathieu GONIN | Research Scientist (CIRAD)

 Léo HERBERT | Research Scientist (Vitropic)

 Eric LACOMBE | Associate professor (University of Montpellier)

 Eveline LEFORT | Research Engineer (CIRAD)

 Sophie LERAN | Research Scientist (CIRAD)

 Delphine MIEULET | Research Scientist (CIRAD)

 Nora RENSCH | Project manager (CIRAD)

 Luc VILLAIN | Research Scientist (CIRAD)

 

Administrative staff:

 Isabelle HERAULT | Administrative assistant (CIRAD)

 

Temporary members

PhD students:

 Thuan SARZYNSKI, CIRAD and ECOM scholarship (2020- )
Thesis title: "Impact of climatic conditions and water availability on the eco-physiological responses and agronomic performances of Coffea arabica F1-hybrids versus fixed lines in the Northwest Vietnam"
Supervised by Hervé Etienne (CIRAD) and Pierre Marraccini (CIRAD)

 Killian LAURENT, CIRAD and ANSES scholarship (2022- )
Thesis title: "Study of the intraspecific variability and invasion capacities of an emerging tropical nematode in French rice cultivation"
Supervised by Laurent Folcher (ANSES), Luc Villain (CIRAD), Stéphane Bellafiore (IRD) and Maria Grossi De Sa (ANSES)

Ikram AMARA, EU project BOLERO (2023- )
Thesis title: "Functional analysis of coffee genes involved in root architecture and water stress tolerance"
Supervised by Hervé Etienne (CIRAD) and Christophe Perin (AGAP, CIRAD)

Lucas LAFLAQUIERE, CIFRE scholarship funded by AMATERA BIOSCIENCES (CIRAD/IRD/AMATERA collaboration) (2023- )
Thesis title: "Cellular and molecular tools for genome editing and metabolic engineering of coffee plants: designing new profiles for lipids and grain alkaloids"
Supervised by Hervé Etienne (CIRAD), Thierry Joët (IRD) and Lucie Kriegshauser (AMATERA BIOSCIENCES)

International Volunteering:

Marie WIOLAND, funded by the French Development Agency (2024-2025)
Mission: In support of the PRCC Coffee North project, Marie's mission is to strengthen and develop the coffee sector in the northern region of Laos. Marie is helping to train local partners in coffee growing and to set up and monitor new coffee plots planted under agroforestry in association with several types of trees.
Current location: Northern region of Laos
Supervised by Hervé Etienne (CIRAD) and Frédéric Georget (CIRAD)

Bertille PATAULT, funded by ECOFFEE project (2024-2025)
Mission: Bertille's mission is to implement a microeconomic study comparing the economic losses and profits linked to pesticide use in an experimental network spread over 36 hectares of Arabica coffee cultivation (Costa Rica and Brazil) and to take part in an environmental LCA study with two CIRAD experts (from UMR ABSys and Hortsys).
Current location: CATIE in Turrialba, Costa Rica
Supervised by Luc Villain (CIRAD) and Marie-Hélène DABAT (CIRAD, located in Bogota, Colombia)

Former members

Lison Marie, PhD student (2019-2022) and Post-Doctoral fellow (2023-2024)
Pierre Marraccini, CIRAD Research Scientist (2015-2023)
Rayan AWADA, PhD student (2017-2020) and Post-Doctoral fellow (2020-2022)
Claudine CAMPA, IRD Research Scientist
Olivier BONATO, IRD Research Scientist
Laurence PASCAL, Associate professor University of Montpellier
Cecile ABDALLAH, Research Assistant (2017-2021)
Doâa DJERRAB, Research Assistant (2018-2019)
Teerarat DUANGSODSRI (Thailand), PhD Student (2017-2020)
Sinara OLIVEIRA DE AQUINO (Brazil), PhD Student (2015-2018)
Ialy ROJO VESTALY (Madagascar), PhD Student (2015-2018)
Lucile TONIUTTI, PhD Student (2014-2017)