Bio

After finishing french-colombian highschool in Cali (Colombia) I joined the biology program of the university of Lyon (France) and subsequently the Microbial Ecology master. During my first master's intership I became interested in the rhizosphere as a major hotspot for plant-microbiota interactions. After completing my PhD on disease suppressive soils in 2012, I joined the lab of Marcel Bucher at the University of Cologne (Germany) to study the microbiome of the alpine rock cress where we discovered a new type of mycorhizal-like fungus capable of transfering phosphorus to its host. In 2016 I joined the lab of Eric Kemen at he Max-Planck Institute for plant Breeding (then at the university of Tübingen) to study temporal dynamics in Arabidospsis leaf microbiota. Since 2019 I am back at the university of Lyon and the Microbial Ecology lab, where I am a CNRS Junior group leader. My current research focuses on microbial mobilisation of phosphorus in the rhizosphere particularly in the case on non-mycorhizal plants.