Benjamin Delory

Benjamin Delory is an Assistant Professor in Environmental Sciences at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, Netherlands. He is a functional, chemical, and community ecologist focused on plant-plant and plant-soil interactions, with implications for biodiversity conservation in global change contexts.

• Expertise: Biodiversity, Plant Ecology, Soil Ecology, Community Assembly, Global Environmental Change
• Skills: Experimental design, Quantitative analysis, R programming, Metabolomics, Plant phenotyping

His research explores how nutrient enrichment and other environmental stressors affect plant-soil interactions, particularly in grasslands and temperate forests. He leads the ChemLEGACY project, investigating soil metabolome alterations by plant species, and contributed to the POEM experiment on root distribution dynamics.

He has held academic positions at Leuphana University (Germany) and completed his PhD at Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech (Belgium). His editorial roles include Section Editor for Plant and Soil and Associate Editor for Journal of Ecology.

• Scientific Awards:
  • Postdoc Ambassador for ISRR11 and Rooting2021 joint meeting
  • 2021 Root Phenotyping Working Group travel prize
  • 2018 Frank and Mary Loewus travel award
  • 2014 FRS-FNRS research fellowship