Team
Photo: Christian Beer
Professor for Dynamics of Soil Processes
Allende-Platz 2
20146 Hamburg
Room: 301, AP2
Tel: +49 40 42838-2699
Photo: UHH, RRZ/MCC, Mentz
Office
Allende-Platz 2
20146 Hamburg
Room: 302a, AP 2
Tel: +49 40 42838-4041
Email: IfB"AT"uni-hamburg.de
Office hours
- Mo - Fr 9 - 12 Uhr
Key aspects of activity
- Office
Photo: Christian Knoblauch
Key aspects of activity
- Aerobic and anaerobic C-turnover
- Methane and carbon dioxide cycle
- Vegetation-microorganisms interaction
- Stable isotopes (C, N, O, H/D)
Photo: Claudia Fiencke
Photo: Xavier Rodriguez
Key aspects of activity
- Contribution to the development of the JSBACH model's soil processes modules
- Development and implementation of site-level models
- Simulation of soil-vegetation interactions using implicit and explicit methods
- Technical support to the working group of Prof. Christian Beer
Photo: Christina Steffens
Key aspects of activity
- Project management and outreach in the project MOMENT
- Carbon cycle in soils
- Plant-soil-interactions
- Field methods, such as chamber measurements, installation of root exclusion zones (root trenching), root ingrowth cores
Photo: Minjung Kwon
Key aspects of activity
- Contribution to the development of permafrost carbon decomposition model
- Quantifying the climate change effects (heatwaves, warming, drying) on CO2 and CH4 cycles in high latitudes and northern peatlands
Photo: Carolina Voigt
Key aspects of activity
- greenhouse gas fluxes from permafrost-affected soils
- terrestrial biogeochemistry
- interactions between the carbon and nitrogen cycle in plant-soil systems in the Arctic
Photo: Lin Yu
Research associate
Allende-Platz 2
20146 Hamburg
Room: 307, AP2
Tel: +49 40 42838-2482
Email: lin.yu"AT"uni-hamburg.de
Key aspects of activity
- Process-based modelling of soil organic matter stabilization and turnover
- Modelling soil microbial dynamics and effects of carbon-nutrient interactions on microbial life cycle
- Global modelling of carbon-climate feedback, particularly the impacts of SOC and soil properties
- ICON land development (QUINCY model)
- Phosphorus processes in terrestrial ecosystem and P cycle modeling
- Modelling Soil mineral Weathering
Photo: Joseph Tamale
Key aspects of activity
- Carbon dynamics in the Arctic
- Stable isotopes (C & N)
- Soil greenhouse gas fluxes
- Intact plant-soil systems (mesocosm)
- Climate chamber experiments
Photo: Lara Kaiser
Doctoral candidate in project C-balance in permafrost
Allende-Platz 2
20146 Hamburg
Room: 115, AP2
Tel: +49 40 42838-2017
Key aspects of activity
- Master in Landscape Ecology, University of Hohenheim 2018, Master thesis on Plant interactions in South Africa
- Methane fluxes in permafrost affected soils
- Mechanistic Modelling
Photo: Cosima Schröer
Key aspects of activity
- M. Sc. in Physical Geography, University of Bremen, 2020; Master thesis on CO2 fluxes in a heating experiment in Alaskan tundra
- Carbon decomposition processes in permafrost-affected soils
- Soil-microbe-plant interactions
- Process-orientated modeling
Photo: Marius Moser
Key aspects of activity
- Modeling of methane processes in permafrost
Key aspects of activity
- Carbon dynamics and weathering processes
- Collaboration in the PyMiCCS project (https://cdrterra.de/en/consortia/pymiccs)
- Modeling the effects of biochar and rock flour on soil processes
Laboratory assistant
Allende-Platz 2
20146 Hamburg
Room: 203, 428, AP2
Email: sumita.rui"AT"uni-hamburg.de
Technical employee
Allende-Platz 2
20146 Hamburg
Room: 428, AP2
Tel: +49 40 42838-7270
Email: Ralf.Lendt"AT"uni-hamburg.de