Eglantina Echartea PhD

Eglantina Lopez Echartea is an environmental microbiologist who studies how microbial communities change and restructure in response to biotic and/or abiotic factors. She combines molecular and cultured-based techniques with meta-omics technologies to understand such interactions and the driven dynamics. She currently works on a project to study the microbiome of dry edible pea and better understand microbe-plant-soil interactions towards a sustainable intensification of agriculture.

Eglantina received her Ph.D. in Microbiology in 2020 from the University of Chemistry and Technology of Prague, Czech Republic. She has a master’s degree in Environmental Engineering from Ghent University, Belgium.