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Marion Dumas
Marion Dumas is a first-year student in the PhD program in Sustainable Development. She graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a B.S. degree in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology with an M.Sc in Ecology and Evolution. She also worked as a consultant in sustainability strategies of companies in France. Her current research focuses on phosphorus scarcity and its impact on agriculture: she is building a dynamic modeling of the phosphorus cycle on a global scale and the use of such a model to evaluate the impacts on agro-ecosystems of various management strategies. Other research interests include restoration of ecosystem functions and the theory and practice of decision-making applied to sustainability.