Valentin Couvreur

0000-0002-1087-3978

FNRS Postdoctoral Fellow (Biological sciences; Earth sciences; Environmental sciences; Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences)

Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

The role of “undercover” soil physicist among plant physiologists comes with the massive challenge of following discussions on hormone transport and gene regulatory pathways; yet it is a unique place to offer quantitative hydraulics skills, in a domain where water flow is ubiquitous. After graduating as Bioengineer in soil and water resources, I had the chance to expand my modelling skills in soil-plant hydraulics with Prof. Mathieu Javaux (UCLouvain). Discovering emergent properties of the plant hydraulic architecture got me a PhD in Agronomical Sciences and Biological Engineering. During the next two years, I was thrilled to pursue research on the water balance of orchards using inverse modelling and deep learning tools at UCDavis with Prof. Jan Hopmans. My ticket back to UCLouvain Belgium was granted by Prof. Xavier Draye who had the brilliant idea to introduce the quantitative hydraulics perspective in plant developmental biology, then creating the first plant “hydraulic anatomy”.

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