Josette Garnier

Josette Garnier defended her Ph-D in Aquatic Ecology and Environment from the University Pierre and Marie Curie (UPMC), together with a certificate in Computing and Applied Statistics in 1982. After a post-doc in UK and France, she was appointed by the National Center of Scientific Research (CNRS) in 1984, got an accreditation to supervise research (Doctorat d'Etat ès Sciences) in 1989. She is presently Research Director at the CNRS with tenure in the field of Biogeochemistry at the Parisian Sorbonne University in France. Since 1997, she leads a research team of Metis Lab and from 2007-2018 she was the head of an interdisciplinary research federation for the environment, gathering 18 laboratories. Since 1989, she has been taken part in an interdisciplinary long term research programme on the Seine River Basin (North of France), strongly impacted by human activity. Anthropogenic modifications of biogeochemical cycles have become a major driver of her research, leading to interdisciplinary collaboration with historians and social geographs as early as 1991.

An objective of her projects, besides basic research towards new frontiers of knowledge, is to respond to societal demands such as the reduction of eutrophication, hypoxia, organic and nitric pollutions, and greenhouse gas emissions. She actively participated to the development of a biogeochemical modelling approach of land-to-sea aquatic continua (GRAFS-RIVERSTRAHLER Model) allowing to understand the cause of river and coastal zone eutrophication related to human activities in watersheds, and to co-construct scenarios with policy makers and stakeholders for alternative management options of the water-agro-food systems at the scale of watersheds. She has been PI of 23 National and European projects and supervised 25 Ph-D students. She published about 190 articles in journals indexed in the ISI Science Citation index and 48 book chapters.