Professor, INRA, Agroecology Unit, University of Burgundy, Dijon, France.

Dr. Eric Lichtfouse, born 1960, is Chief Editor of scholarly journals in chemistry and agronomy. He is heading Publication Assistance Services and giving lectures on scientific writing. After a PhD thesis on molecular fossils in 1989, he studied petroleum formation, soil carbon and phytoremediation in the USA, Germany and France.