Family name, first name: Frossard Emmanuel
Researcher unique identifiers: Google scholar Emmanuel Frossard ETH
Date of birth: 09.08.1960
Nationality: Swiss and French
Web site: www.plantnutrition.ethz.ch
1983 Ingénieur Agronome (MSc in agricultural sciences) Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Agronomie et des Industries Alimentaires, Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine
1985 PhD agricultural sciences (soil science), Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine
1985-1987 Postdoctoral fellow at the Saskatchewan Institute of Pedology, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
1988-1994 Lecturer, Group of Crop Sciences, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Agronomie et des Industries Alimentaires, Nancy, France
1994-2000 Associate Professor and Head of the Group of Plant Nutrition, Institute of Plant Sciences, Department of Agronomy and Food Science, ETH Zurich
2000- now Full Professor and Head of the Group of Plant Nutrition, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich
January-June 2013 Sabbatical stay in the group of BioGeoChemistry of Prof. PM Vitousek, Stanford University
April 1998-March 1999 Head of the Institute of Plant Sciences, ETH Zurich
October 2006-July 2008 Head of the Department of Agronomy and Food Science, ETH Zurich
October 2006-July 2008 Delegate for the Study Program in Agricultural Sciences, ETH Zurich
April 2009 - February 2010 Head of the Institute of Plant Sciences, ETH Zurich
February 2014 – January 2015 Head of the Institute of Agricultural Sciences, ETH Zurich
Since 2017 Member of the Strategic Planning Committee of the Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich
Total peer-reviewed articles: 247; peer-reviewed articles listed in the Web Of Science Core Collection: 244; sum of times cited in the Web Of Science 7,744; h factor 50; peer-reviewed books: 4; peer-reviewed chapters: 24
2017 Impacts of N/P inputs on organic P dynamics and P status in soils and plants along a nutrient gradient, funded by SNF within the frame of the SPP 1685 of the DGF (E Frossard PI).
2017 Biophysical, institutional and economic drivers of sustainable soil use in yam systems for improved food security in West Africa (YAMSYS, phase 2), funded by the R4D program of SNF/SDC (E Frossard PI).
2018 Study of plants culture on substrate of urine origin: Roots zone focus, funded by MeLISSA foundation (European Space Agency) (E Frossard coPI).
2019 Biochar as a soil amendment for sustainable yam systems in West Africa, funded by an Engineering for Development (E4D) doctoral scholarship of ETH (E Frossard PI).
2019 Delivering wheat (Triticum aestivum) with high zinc and low cadmium content for human nutrition through the addition of organic matter of agricultural origin and improved use of soil zinc, funded by the ETH research commission (E Frossard PI).
Member of the scientific advisory board of Rittmo (Colmar, France) from 2012 to 2019; President of the scientific advisory board from 2014 to 2019
Member of the Programme committee of the SPP 1685 “ecosystem nutrition” of the German Science Foundation (https://www.ecosystem-nutrition.uni-freiburg.de/personen) since 2013
President of the steering committee of the Swiss national research program on soil (NRP 68), 2014-2019
Member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the Science Campus Phosphorus Research Rostock since 2014
Member of the Scientific Advisory Group of Agroscope’s “Production2020” research initiative from autumn 2015 to spring 2017
President of the evaluation committee of the “Laboratoire d’écophysiologie végétale et agroécologie” of the Ecole Supérieure d’Agriculture d’Angers (January 2016)
Member of the evaluation committee of the “dispositif de recherche et d’enseignement en partenariat (dP) sur les Systèmes de Production d’Altitude et Durabilité (SPAD) à Madagascar » (October 2016)
Member of the award committee of the Swiss Forum for International Agricultural Research (SFIAR) since July 2017 Member of editorial board for the journal “plants” since July 2018
Associate editor for the special issue of the Journal of Environmental Quality “Celebrating the 350th Anniversary of Discovering Phosphorus—For Better or Worse” in 2019
Reviewer for numerous journals, universities and funding organizations
Member of Swiss Society of Agronomists and Food Scientists (SVIAL)
Member of the Swiss Society of Soil Science (SSP)
Member of the Swiss Society of agronomy (SSA)
Member of the International Scientific Advisory Board of the 8th International Phosphorus Workshop (IPW8), Phosphorus 2020 - Challenge for synthesis, agriculture & ecosystem, Rostock, September 2016
Co-chair of the organization committee of the International Conference on the Biogeochemistry of Trace Elements ICOBTE Zurich, July 2017
Co-organizer of the yam session at the international conference for research on development, Bern, September 2017
Member of the organization committee of the International Conference “Isocycles: reaching an integrated use of stable isotopes to constrain biogeochemical nutrient cycles” Ascona (CH) October 2017
Co-organizer of the summer school “Food systems in transition” (26 students) that took place in Yamoussoukro (Côte d’Ivoire) from the 27th of January 2018 to the 9th of February 2018 organized by the World Food System Center of ETH, the r4d project YAMSYS and the Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques en Côte d’Ivoire.
Member of the scientific committee of the 1st joint AgroSpace-MELiSSA workshop, May 16-18, 2018 - Rome
Chair of the scientific committee of the 15th congress of the European Society for Agronomy, Genève, August 2018
Co-organizer of the 9th International Phosphorus Workshop (IPW9) in Zurich, July 2019
Fellowship from the National Council for Scientific Research of Canada 1985-1987
Corresponding member of the French Academy of Agriculture since 2002
Honorary visiting Professor to the Department of Crop Science, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka since 2019
Recipient of the “10th CSRS-Fonds Eremitage award for research in partnership” together with VK Hgaza, S Ake, and LN Diby (Côte d’Ivoire), DI Kiba (Burkina Faso) and RL Senanayake (Sri Lanka) for the research linking yam crop physiology to the development of crop management practices in farmers’ fields in West Africa (nov 28 2019).