08.04.2021

Dr. Alexandre Wadoux receives Margaret Oliver Award 2021

Tübingen master's graduate of Soil-Science receives award for Early-Career Pedometricians

The Margaret Oliver Award is made biennially by the Pedometrics Commission of the International Union of Soil Sciences. It is named in honour of Professor Margaret Oliver, and to mark her particular commitment to developing and supporting young pedometricians. The award is made to an early-career scientist, active in pedometrics and in promoting and supporting the discipline who, at the time of nomination had held the degree of PhD for less than six years. In 2021 a total of four candidates were nominated for the award. They came from three continents, and each had an impressive CV evidencing a range and depth of interests, and original contributions to Pedometrics. 

This year, the committee has made the 2021 Margaret Oliver Award to Dr. Alexandre Wadoux. Alexandre graduated in Environmental Geography from the University of Angers, France, in 2012. He obtained Master's degrees in soil science at the University of Tübingen, and philosophy of science (Nantes, France) before graduating from Wageningen in 2019 with a PhD thesis entitled Sampling design optimization for geostatistical modelling and prediction under the supervision of Gerard Heuvelink and Dick Brus. These studies were undertaken within a highly competitive Marie Curie Initial Training Network (EU) programme, under which he gained experience as a visiting researcher at Sydney, the British Geological Survey, Delft University of Technology and Bristol University. Since the end of his PhD studies Alexandre has been employed as a Research Associate at the Sydney Institute of Agriculture & School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Australia. 

Read the full article written by Murray Lark and published by Nicolas Saby at pedometrics.org.