FLORES Team

I’m a professor of environmental physics in the Biosystem Dynamics and Exchanges (BIODYNE) research lab within the TERRA research unit at the University of Liège, where I lead investigations into ecosystem services under climate change. My research examines how ecophysiological processes governing carbon, water, energy, and nitrogen budgets respond to environmental drivers, with a particular focus on photosynthesis and soil respiration. During my tenure at INRAE (France), I refined eddy covariance methodology for measuring net CO₂ ecosystem exchange and contributed to the establishment of ICOS, the European research infrastructure coordinating flux measurement stations across multi-site networks.

Professor Ivan Janssens works at the biology department at the University of Antwerp, more specifically the Plants and Ecosystems (PLECO) research group, within the global change ecology excellence cluster. His work centers on understanding how ecosystems function and respond to major environmental changes such as climate change, nutrient dynamics, and carbon cycling, with implications for predicting future ecosystem services and informing sustainable environmental policy. Janssens also plays a prominent role in large research infrastructure, through the ICOS (Integrated Carbon Observation System) program. His research spans field studies, ecosystem monitoring, and collaborative projects within European research programs.

I'm a postdoctoral researcher in the Biosystem Dynamics and Exchanges (BIODYNE) research lab within the TERRA research unit at the University of Liège. My work examines how vegetation responds to climate change through gas exchange and solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence measurements. I specialize in mechanistic vegetation modelling, eddy covariance methods, and hyperspectral remote sensing. My doctoral research explored crop physiological responses to drought stress, where I developed new modelling frameworks that integrate fluorescence signals with photosynthesis and transpiration processes across the soil–plant–atmosphere continuum.

I am a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Liège and the University of Antwerp, working at the interface of plant physiology, remote sensing, and ecosystem ecology. My research focuses on advancing our understanding of the coupling between the carbon and water cycles through the use of sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) and eddy covariance flux measurements. In addition to ground-based approaches, I actively investigate the potential of satellite-based SIF measurements, such as those provided by TROPOMI and the upcoming FLEX mission, to scale ecosystem-level findings to larger spatial domains.