Eoin Brodie is the deputy director of the Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, and also leads the program domain of Environmental and Biological Systems Sciences. His broad focus includes reverse-engineering complex microbiomes in natural and managed ecosystems, and using computational models to explore microbiome functioning, with the goal of harnessing microbiomes to support healthy soils and resilient ecosystems and organisms. He earned a PhD in microbial ecology from University College in Dublin, Ireland, before completing postdoctoral positions and leadership training at the University of California, Berkeley, and Berkeley Lab.
Margaret S. Torn is Senior Advisor in the Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division (CESD), and an ecologist and biogeochemist who studies the natural carbon cycle and human impacts through land use, energy use, and climate change. She has published more than 200 peer-reviewed articles on topics ranging from the basic mechanisms of soil carbon cycling and ecosystem-climate feedbacks, to ecological aspects of bioenergy production, to strategies for climate-change mitigation. She is lead PI for the AmeriFlux Management Project and Belowground Biogeochemistry Scientific Focus Area (SFA), and is co-PI for the Next Generation Ecosystem Experiments-Arctic.
