University of New Caledonia
Bruno Fogliani is an assistant professor at the University of New Caledonia and has been previously the deputy director of the New Caledonian Agronomic Institute. He is involved in the coordination of several research programs engaged with New Caledonian Institutions as well as with Nickel Mining Industries dedicated to conservation, revegetation and/or ecological restoration. His scientific interests focuses on ecology of seed used for ecological restoration of mining site in New Caledonia. He also develops research programs on hyperaccumulator plants to understand their ecophysiology from seed to adult plant and he participates to a phytomining project dedicated to the use of this kind of plant for revegetation of degraded mining site and for utilization of the metal contained in their leaves for green chemistry.
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