Christophe Robin

**Dr Christophe Robin** Senior Scientist (Directeur de Recherche INRAE) Orcid ID : 0000-0001-8117-806X Plant ecophysiologist Current Position: Scientist at the research lab. “Laboratoire Agronomie et Environnement” Nancy-Colmar (LAE) web site : lae.univ-lorraine.fr/en twitter : @umr_lae R**esearch topics**Plant-insect interactions/plant defence: trade-off growth-defence, secondary metabolism. · Tree-truffle interactions, trufficulture**:** understanding of biological cycle and technical management for yield optimisation ***Key words*** : plant ecophysiology, plant defence, plant carbon assimilation and partitioning, plant growth and development, tomato, forage legumes, truffles, trufficulture, water management, primary and secondary metabolisms, metabolic pathways, biocontrol, allelopathy, regulations, source-sink relationships, isotope labelling (13C, 14C, 15N). Dr. Christophe Robin is the Research Director INRAE, the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment, which ranks the first in Europe and second in the world for the publications in agriculture. He studied Plant Science at the University of Nancy and then received his PhD in Agronomy at the Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine in 1989. He obtained his Accreditation to Direct Research in 1996. He is a specialist in Plant Science with an expertise in Plant Ecophysiology and Agronomy/Agroecology. Dr. Robin has been the Director of the Agronomy and Environment Laboratory from June 2017 to April 2023 (lae.univ-lorraine.fr/en) and the Administrative Director of the Structural and Metabolomic Analysis Platform, which makes available agrifood and agronomic research recent tools dedicated to the analysis of biomolecules (https://ensaia.univ-lorraine.fr/fr/content/plateau-danalyse-structurale-et-metabolomique). Previously, he worked as a researcher on the interactions occurring between plants (forage plants, crops) and their biotic and abiotic environment with the issues to reduce inputs in agriculture (fertilizers, water, pesticides). He also studied rhizosphere processes (plant-soil-microorganisms interactions). He worked as a researcher on pasture ecophysiology in New Zealand for one-year at the AgResearch Grassland Institute (Palmerston-North) in 1993, as well as on tropical legume in the West Indies Islands for 16 months at the INRA Guadeloupe. His research topic is now dedicated to plant-insect interactions, focused on the identification of defence molecules. He is the author/co-author of scientific papers in international journals (Orcid ID: 0000-0001-8117-806X) and a referee for numerous scientific journals, such as Plant Cell and Environment, Annals of Botany, Plant and Soil, Journal of Experimental Botany... Dr. Robin also highly experienced in the assessment of research labs and Research Federations and in the evaluation of research projects. He worked at the National Evaluation Agency in France as the Scientific Delegate in the definition of objective indicators and the writing of evaluation reports.