Mercedes Fourment is a Lecturer in Viticulture in the Agronomy Faculty at Universidad de la República (Uruguay). She obtained the Agronomy Engineering degree from the Universidad de la República (Montevideo, Uruguay, 2009) and the Master's degree in "Vigne et Terroir" from the Université de Bourgogne (Dijon, France, 2011). She also obtained a co-tutoring Ph.D. degree in Agronomy from Universidad de la República (Uruguay) and Ph.D. in Geography from Université Rennes 2 (Rennes, France, 2016). Mercedes works contributing to different aspects of vineyard sustainability in Uruguay through studies on vine adaptation to climate variability, vineyard management and vine ecophysiology.