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After studying at Rouen University, I obtained a double Master's degree in Mathematical Modeling and Analysis in partnership with the Mathematical Engineering Master's program at Università Degli Studi di Napoli Federico II (Italy). In November 2020, I began a thesis on the modeling of water transfer in soil in the presence of amphiphilic matter, applied to the rhizosphere at Avignon University and INRAE under the supervision of Philippe Beltrame, Annette Bérard and Claude Doussan at the EMMAH laboratory (UMR1114), which I defended in March 2024 (https://theses.fr/2024AVIG0623). In parallel with finalizing my thesis, I completed an ATER contract in the Physics Department of Avignon University between November 2023 and August 2024.

I joined the Institut des Sciences de la Terre d'Orléans in September 2024 as a postdoctoral fellow on the ERC TRACE-IT project in the Porous Media group in collaboration with Sophie Roman (ISTO) and Cyprien Soulaine (ISTO). This project aims to understand and model the influence of diffusiophoresis on particle transport at the pore or soil column scale. In particular, this modeling work will aim to improve understanding of crack sealing and the remediation of polluted environments, through pore-scale and macroscopic simulations.

You can find out more about this project at https://erc-trace-it.cnrs.fr/ and about my publications at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Florian-Cajot.

Publication :
• Philippe BELTRAME, Florian CAJOT (2022). Model of hydrophobic porous media applied to stratified media: Water trapping, intermittent flow and fingering instability. EPL, 138(5):53004. Publisher: IOP Publishing. (https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1209/0295-5075/ac71c1)
• Samuel Le Gall, Clémentine Lapie, Florian CAJOT, Claude Doussan, Léo Corridor, Annette Bérard (2024). Chemical diversity of crop plants root mucilages. Implications for their maximal water content and mineralization in soils. Rhizosphere (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rhisph.2024.100858)