Deputy Director of the institute

Lecturer at the Technical University Braunschweig, Institute of Geoecology [Link]

Topical Editor of SOIL [Link]

• Impact of land-use change and land management on biogeochemical cycles in tropical and temperate ecosystems
• C fluxes and C sequestration in managed and disturbed ecosystems
• Process studies on C stabilisation in soils: bioturbation, C dynamics in subsoils, biochar
• Soil organic carbon heterogeneity: geostatistical approaches and in-situ measurements using near infrared spectroscopy
• Coupling of above ground and below ground carbon cycling: Influence of biodiversity and soil fauna