Vincent Vadez

Vincent Vadez is a crop physiologist and agronomist, initially trained as an engineer. Prior to ICRISAT, he has worked for four years with a Bolivian lowland indigenous group to measure the socio-economic drivers of deforestation. Before that he did research on symbiotic nitrogen fixation at the University of Florida, at CIAT Colombia, and at the National University of Singapore.
At ICRISAT his group worked on the genetic and mechanistic deciphering of plant traits / trait-environment interactions. He developed a large lysimetric platform (LysiField) for a direct, precise, rapid, in-vivo assay of water extraction, and a 3-D scanning platform (LeasyScan) to phenotype water-use traits. This part is supported by crop simulation modeling to characterize main stress scenarios and predict trait and agronomic management effects on yield across time and geographical scales.
He joined IRD (Institute for Research and Development) as a principal scientist in 2017, where he continues on similar research streams as in ICRISAT, and remains a close collaborator to ICRISAT. He is currently posted in Senegal, hosted at CERAAS, the Regional Center of Excellence on drought research, where he brings his experience to boost the phenotyping and modelling capacity of this regional program.