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Adrien Burlacot is an algal physiologist specialized in the study of photosynthesis and bioenergetics of algal cell. Adrien is a physicist by training, he received a BS and MSc in Engineering from the Ecole polytechnique (France). He has a PhD in Plant Science from the Aix-Marseille University (France) and did a postdoc at the University of California, Berkeley (USA), he joined the Carnegie Institution for Science as a Staff Associate in the fall 2021. Adrien's lab investigates how microalgal photosynthesis dynamically acclimates to fluctuations in environmental parameters like light, CO2 or temperature. He is using and developing quantitative spectroscopic tools to understand the dynamics of photosynthesis. Adrien aims at unravelling the network of photosynthesis acclimatory genes and their bioenergetic role in the cell. He wants to use this knowledge and the new tools developed to propose new ways of harnessing photosynthesis for a more sustainable world.