The Professor Baptiste GRARD

Dr Baptiste GRARD
Associate Professor in Environmental sciences
Coordinator of the Center for Living Agroecology and food Systems

Expertise

Evaluation of delivered ecosystem services from agricultural ecosystem ; Evaluation and conception of constructed soil in urban agriculture

Research Unit
Agroecology and environment unit

Key words

Agroecology, urban agriculture, rooftop farming, green roof, multi-actor research, soil sciences, ecosystem services, green roof

Ongoing research project or lately completed

• AE4EU : Agroecology for Europe
• PATH2DEA : Paving the Way towards Digitalisation Enabling Agroecology for European Farming Systems
• Soil organic matter and ecosystem services : market gardening and resilient territories.

Teaching activities

• Intervention in MsC Agroecology, Specific area of Study (DA) TIC-TAC and teaching the Food and cities module

Professional experience and studies

• 2021-2024: Project manager and researcher with the Agroecology for Europe project (www.ae4eu.eu)
• 2018-2020 : Project manager and postdoc – Research project SEMOIRS, FEW-Meter and T4P – UMR ECOSYS (AgroParisTech – INRA)
• 2014-2017: Research engineer (1 year) then PhD (3 years) – Thesis in environmental sciences « Productive Technosol made of urban waste: delivered ecosystem services and evolution ». UMR ECOSYS and ESE (AgroParisTech – INRA – Paris Sud University).
  • Research project T4P, TROL and Techn’AU.
• 2011-2013 : Master in Ecology, Biodiversity and Evolution (EBE) – professional specialization « Ecological engineering and ecosystem management» co-certified by ‘ENS, AgroParisTech, MNHN, Pierre and Marie Curie and Paris XI universities