Dr. Jean-Thomas Cornelis

Biography

Dr. Jean-Thomas Cornelis joined the Faculty’s Applied Biology program in February 2021 as an Assistant Professor. He came from Belgium’s University of Liège where he was an Assistant Professor in soil science.

Dr. Cornelis teaches LWS 501  Advanced Soil Processes.

Cornelis has set up the SoilRes3 Lab, which stands for Soil Resistance, Resilience, and Restoration. A biogeochemist and pedologist, Cornelis’s research program studies the interaction between soil processes and biogeochemical cycling of elements in environments affected by natural and human induced changes.

Publications

Please visit Dr. Cornelis’ Google Scholar page for a full list of publications

Here is a snapshot view of my recent research work:

De Tombeur, F., Turner, B., Laliberté, E., Lambers, H., Mahy, G., Faucon, M-P., Zemunik, G., Cornelis, J-T. (2020) Plants sustain the terrestrial silicon cycle during ecosystem retrogression. Science 369, 1245-1248

Burgeon, V., Fouche, J., Leifeld, J., Chenu, C., Cornelis, J-T. (2020) Organo-mineral associations largely contribute to the stabilization of century-old pyrogenic organic matter in cropland soils. Geoderma, in press

Hardy, B., Sleutel, S., Dufey, J., Cornelis, J-T. (2019) The long-term effect of biochar on soil microbial abundance, activity and community structure is overwritten by land management. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 7, 110

Cornelis, J-T., & Delvaux, B. (2016). Soil processes drive the biological silicon feedback loop. Functional Ecology, 30, 1298-1310.

Cornelis, J-T., Weis, D., Lavkulich, L., Vermeire, M.-L., Barling, J., Delvaux, B., Barling, J. (2014). Silicon isotopes record dissolution and re-precipitation of pedogenic clay minerals in a podzolic soil chronosequence. Geoderma, 235-236, 19-29.

Cornelis, J-T., Delvaux, B., Georg, B., Lucas, Y., Ranger, J., & Opfergelt, S. (2011). Tracing the origin of dissolved silicon transferred from various soil-plant systems towards rivers: a review. Biogeosciences, 8, 89-112.

Cornelis, J-T., Delvaux, B., Ranger, J., & Iserentant, A. (2010). Tree species impact the terrestrial cycle of silicon through various uptakes. Biogeochemistry, 97, 231-245.

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