Erfan Nouri
Erfan has a comprehensive background in soil sciences, sustainable agriculture, and plant cell biology. He earned his bachelor’s degree insoilsciences andengineering from Isfahan University of Technology, Iran focusing on phytoremediation strategies to mitigate soil toxicity.
His master’s degree insustainableagriculture at the University of Padova, Italy deepened his understanding of agricultural sustainability and included research on the effects of plasma-activated water on plant-microbe interactions.
Erfan’s project at UCLouvain (Belgium) aims at investigating plant root structural and functional plastic responses to soil water. Erfan will investigate, using a unique automated rhizotron phenotypic platform, how Maize genotypes respond to heterogeneous soil water patterns. In addition, root response functions will be implemented in a Functional Structural plant root model (FSPM) to investigate how local root response affect Maize development and define ideotypes better adapted to drought under different pedo-climatic conditions.
Supervisors: Prof. Mathieu Javaux, Prof. Xavier Draye (UCLouvain)