Estelle Couradeau

Estelle Couradeau completed her Ph.D. in geomicrobiology at the University of Paris-Diderot (France), where she worked on the intricate relationship between microbes and their mineral substrate. A topic that she further explored as a postdoc at Arizona State University. During her time in Arizona, she started working on soils and applied her analytical skills to arid land soils built by microbes. She became passionate about soils and their potential to be a lifeline for current global challenges. She further pursued that topic as a postdoc at the Joint Genome Institute (LBNL) and worked on contaminated soils while completing her training in microbiomes characterization, including omics techniques. She joined Penn State in early 2020 as an assistant professor in the Ecosystem Science and Management department. Her group focuses on the study of soil microbiomes, trying to understand which microbes are active and how their metabolism might be affected by the rapidly changing environmental conditions.