Elsa Coucheney

I am holding a PhD in Environmental Sciences and I am urrently working as a researcher and a teacher in the Soil and Environmental Physics group.

My research primarily focuses on cropping systems and the ways in which climate and soil management practices impact soil functions, agricultural productivity, and associated environmental impacts. I am particularly interested in the interactions between soil structure, organic matter turnover, and soil-water dynamics within agroecosystems. To explore these interactions, I employ a combination of experimental methods and numerical modeling.

I am currently the course leader for the Master’s course "Soil Water Processes in Agroecosystems" (since 2018) and the Bachelor’s level course "Environmental Physics" (since 2025), where I teach about energy and water flows in the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum. In 2025, our team received the SLU Team Teaching Award for the Soil Water Processes course.

Additionally, I have given a lecture on "Soil Representation in Agroecosystem Modeling" for the newly developed PhD course "Introduction to Soil Science" led by Nadia Maaroufi (2024).

I co-developed and co-organized the PhD course "Soil Systems: Integrating Chemical and Biophysical Interfaces in Soils" in 2010 (with Anke Herrmann) and 2025 (with Grace Pold, Nick Jarvis, Anke Herrmann, and Pascal Benard).

Both PhD courses are jointly organized by the "Focus on Soil and Water Research School" and the Department of Soil and Environment (SLU).

Please refer to: Coucheney, Elsa | SLU publication database (SLUpub)