Thomas Guillaume

Dr. Thomas Guillaume is a Researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) and the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL). His work focuses on quantifying the impacts of land-use changes, particularly oil palm plantations, on carbon and nutrient cycles in tropical and temperate ecosystems, including collaborations in the CRC-990 (2016-2019) and the OPAL project.

• Current Affiliations: Laboratory of Ecological Systems (EPFL), WSL
• Key Projects: EFForTS (completed PhD, 2015), CRC-990 Phase 2, OPAL

Research Interests include:

• Soil functioning under agricultural transformation
• Comparative analysis of land-use trajectories (e.g., rainforest vs. savanna conversion)
• Climate change impacts on plant communities and grassland ecosystems

He supervises fieldwork and data analysis for ongoing studies but no specific advisees are named in this text. Contact: thomas.guillaume@epfl.ch.