Team
Photo: Christian Beer
Heisenberg-Professor for Dynamics of Soil Processes
Allende-Platz 2
20146 Hamburg
Room: 301, AP2
Tel: +49 40 42838-2699
Office hours
Thursday 10:00-11:00 a.m.
Due to corona, please register by e-mail until Wednesday 2:00 p.m. with Tanja Döbler (ifb@uni-hamburg.de(ifb"AT"uni-hamburg.de?subject=Meeting%20Prof.%20Christian%20Beer)). We will then send you a time slot and a zoom link for Thursday.
Photo: Eva-Maria Pfeiffer
Professor (retired) for soil ecology and soil genesis
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: Claudia Fiencke
Photo: Leonardo de Aro Galera
Key aspects of activity
- Research in project: The impact of permafrost thawing on net primary productivity and nutrients availability of the polygonal tundra in the Lena River Delta, Siberia
- C- and N-cycle in permafrost-affected soils
- Soil carbon stocks in tropical ecosystems
- Soil greenhouse gas emissions
- Stable isotopes analysis
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: 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: 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
Technical employee
Allende-Platz 2
20146 Hamburg
Room: 428, AP2
Tel: +49 40 42838-7270
Email: Ralf.Lendt"AT"uni-hamburg.de
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
Laboratory assistant
Allende-Platz 2
20146 Hamburg
Room: 203, 428, AP2
Email: sumita.rui"AT"uni-hamburg.de
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: UHH, RRZ/MCC, Mentz
Photo: Melanie Kern
Scientist in DFG-project "Process-oriented cryoturbation modelling"
Allende-Platz 2
20146 Hamburg
Room: 115, AP2
Tel: +49 40 42838-2017
Key aspects of activity
- Process-oriented modelling
- Biogeophysical soil processes
- Soils in permafrost regions
- Cryoturbation
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
Research associate
Allende-Platz 2
20146 Hamburg
Room: 307, AP2
Tel: +49 40 42838-2482
Email: lin.yu"AT"uni-hamburg.de