Emma Rochelle-Newall
Researcher in microbial ecology in tropical environments
Emma Rochelle-Newall is a research director at the IRD within the iEES-Paris UMR. She joined the IRD in 2003 after completing a PhD at the University of Maryland in the United States and a post-doctorate at the CNRS at the Oceanological observatory in Villefranche-sur-Mer, during which she studied the role of aquatic heterotrophic bacteria in the carbon cycle. She is currently the assistant director of iEES-Paris and the director of ECOBIO, one of the five scientific departments of IRD.
Her research focuses on how anthropogenic impacts, such as increased inorganic and organic inputs or changes in land use, alter the genetic and functional diversity of microbial communities in order to understand the impacts of human activities in aquatic ecosystems.
Another more recent aspect of her work concerns the spread of pathogens in aquatic ecosystems. She is studying how damage to the environment in developing countries affects the ecology of microbes and impacts the health of populations using water resources.
