François Courchesne

François Courchesne is holder of a doctorate from McGill University in soil science, François Courchesne has been a professor of soil biogeochemistry in the Department of Geography since 1988. He is interested in the effects of environmental changes on the cycling of nutrients and contaminants, including trace metals in terrestrial ecosystems. He has authored more than 140 articles and chapters of collective works with the jury, and presented, alone or in collaboration, more than 250 conferences in national and international forums. François Courchesne has been a principal investigator in major research infrastructures, including the Metals in the Human Environment research network of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada and the GenoRem project on the bioremediation of contaminated soils, funded by Genome Canada.Canadian Journal of Soil Science.

François Courchesne headed the Department of Geography from 2000 to 2009. From 2010 to 2017, he was vice-dean for planning and infrastructure at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. He was Associate Vice-Rector for Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies from July 2019 to June 2020.