**Jacynthe Dessureault-Rompr´e**

Jacynthe Dessureault-Rompre is currently a professor in soil conservation and health at Laval ´ University. She completed her bachelor's degree in agronomy and her master's degree in soil chemistry at Laval University (Canada), and obtained a PhD degree from the ETH Zurich in Switzerland, working specifically on the soil–plant relationship. She has completed several years of post-doc, studying nitrogen cycling in soil in collaboration with Agriculture Canada and Dalhousie University (Canada). She specialized in the conservation and restoration of cultivated peatland from 2014, her work being focused on carbon equilibrium through biomass production and soil amendment. Her scientific interests include soil conservation in general and that of cultivated peatland in particular, the soil–plant relationship and climate change, the optimization of the N and C cycles in soils for sustainable agriculture, and the regeneration of degraded soils using phytotechnology.
