Marc-André Selosse

Marc-André SELOSSE is a professor at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle in Paris and at the universities of Gdansk (Poland) and Kunming (China), where he heads research teams. He has taught in Viçosa (Brazil) and is a lecturer at Ecole Normale Supérieure, Science Po and Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC). His work focuses on the ecology and evolution of mutual benefit associations (symbioses). A mycologist and botanist, he works in particular on mycorrhizal symbioses, which unite soil fungi with plant roots.

President of BioGée, member of the Académie d'Agriculture de France and the Institut Universitaire de France, he is editor of four international scientific journals and the popular magazine Espèce. He has published more than 210 research articles and 250 popular articles, which can be downloaded from his website, and a hundred or so videos are available on YouTube.

He has published books for the general public on microbiota(Jamais seul, 2017), tannins(Les goûts et les couleurs du monde, 2019) and soil(L'origine du Monde, 2021), as well as his chronicles broadcast on France-Inter(Petites histoires naturelles, 2021), published by Actes Sud. He is co-author of a comic strip on soil with Mathieu Burniat(Sous Terre, 2021, Dargaud). He was awarded the Homme-Nature prize by the Sommer 2020 Foundation.