Staff
Professors
Active professors
Photo: Christian Beer
Professor for Dynamics of Soil Processes
Allende-Platz 2
20146 Hamburg
Room: 301, AP2
Telephone: +49 40 2395-22699
Deputy: Prof. Dr. Lars Kutzbach
Photo: Annette Eschenbach
Professor for Soil Technology and Soil Protection, Vice Dean for Studies, Teaching and Career Development
Allende-Platz 2
20146 Hamburg
Room: 304b, AP2
Telephone: +49 40 2395-22008
Office hours
Tuesday 2:30 - 3:30 pm
Currently due to corona please register first by e-mail. You receive a time frame and a zoom link.
Key aspects of activity
- Properties and function of soils
- Sustainable use of soils
- Soil protection
Photo: Lars Kutzbach
Professor for Soils in the Climate System
Allende-Platz 2
20146 Hamburg
Room: 304a, AP2
Telephone: +49 40 2395-22021
Office hours
- by arrangement
Retired professors / with emeritus status
Photo: Günter Miehlich
Key aspects of activity
- Public relations (talks and walks about soils)
Photo: Eva-Maria Pfeiffer
Professor (retired) for soil ecology and soil genesis
Research associates
Photo: Elisa Toth
Doctoral candidate in the project SUSTAIN
Allende-Platz 2
20146 Hamburg
Room: 216, AP 2
Telephone: +49 40 2395-27441
Key aspects of activity
- Sandy soils in the Kavango region of Namibia
- Effects of land use and land management on soil carbon and nitrogen content
- Soil-legume-interactions
Photo: Maria Seedtke
Key aspects of activity
- C dynamics and stabilization of C in agricultural soils
- Using the combination of biochar and enhanced weathering for carbon dioxide removal (CDR) from the atmosphere and for improving soil properties
- Stable C isotopes
Photo: Joscha Becker
Photo: UHH, RRZ/MCC, Mentz
Key aspects of activity
- HELP modell
- Editorship Hamburger Bodenkundliche Arbeiten
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
Photo: Tim Eckhardt
Key aspects of activity
- Hood-based trace gas flux measurements.
- Recent carbon dynamics at the soil-vegetation-atmosphere interface
- Peatland restoration and climate change mitigation
Photo: Claudia Fiencke
Key aspects of activity
- Aerobic and anaerobic N turnover of Arctic soils
- Microbial induced N cycle
- Long-term determination of microbial biomass
Photo: Miriam Fuss
Key aspects of activity
- wetland biogeochemistry
- greenhouse gas fluxes in salt marshes
- soil vegetation-interactions
- Global Change effects on wetland ecosystem functions
- impact of reoccurring reducing and oxidising conditions on element cycling in soils
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: UHH, RRZ/MCC, Mentz
Photo: UHH, RRZ/MCC, Mentz
Scientist
Allende-Platz 2
20146 Hamburg
Room: 505, AP2
Telephone: +49 40 2395-22010
Email: David.Holl"AT"uni-hamburg.de
Key aspects of activity
- Eddy Covariance trace gas and energy fluxes
- Temperate bog ecosystems in Germany and Patagonia
- Climate change mitigating potential of peatland restoration
Senior Researcher
Sustainability and Global Change
Allende-Platz 2
20146 Hamburg
Room: 315a, AP2
Telephone: +49 40 42838 2147
Photo: Lara Kaiser
Doctoral candidate in project C-balance in permafrost
Allende-Platz 2
20146 Hamburg
Room: 115, AP2
Telephone: +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
Photo: Juliane Lenz
Key aspects of activity
- Effects of global change on nitrous oxide and carbon dynamics in estuaries and marshes
- Nitrogen cycle and interactions with the carbon cycling
- Isotope geochemistry, in particular for nitrogen (15N/14N) and oxygen (18O/16O)
- member of the Research Training Group 2530 "Biota-mediated effects on Carbon cycling in Estuaries" at the University of Hamburg
- part of the Department of Aquatic Nutrient Cycles in the Institute of Carbon Cycles at the Helmholtz Centre Hereon
Doctoral candidate in project BiCEst
Allende-Platz 2
20146 Hamburg
Room: 506, AP2
Telephone: +49 40 42838-4397
Key aspects of activity
- Master in Earth and Environment, specialisation biology and chemistry of soil and water, Wageningen University, The Netherlands, 2019; master thesis on Plantago lanceolata's ability to secrete biological nitrification inhibitors and the effect on nitrous oxide emissions from peat and sandy soils.
- Greenhouse gas emissions from estuarine marsh and in-situ flux measurements
- Soil-vegetation-atmosphere interactions and herbivory effects
- Carbon cycling and plant-soil microbes interactions
Photo: Johanna Metzger
Photo: Marius Moser
Key aspects of activity
- Modeling of methane processes in permafrost
Postdoctoral Researcher in the Junior Research Group COLDSPOT
Allende-Platz 2
20146 Hamburg
Room: 115, AP2
Telephone: +49 40 2395-22022
Key aspects of activity
- Biogeochemical processes in terrestrial ecosystems
- Carbon and nutrient dynamics in tidal and Arctic soils
- Interactions between soil, plants, and microorganisms
Research assistant
Allende-Platz 2
20146 Hamburg
Room: 114, AP2
Telephone: +49 40 42838-2271
Email: Ines.Nofz"AT"uni-hamburg.de
Key aspects of activity
- Soil Chemistry / Biogeochemistry
- Greenhouse gases interactions with the plant-soil system in Arctic tundra
- Biological greenhouse gas sinks - Investigation of the methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) sink potential of Arctic soils
Key aspects of activity
- Soils of the polar and subpolar zones
- Influence of land use change on the chemical and biological properties of soils
- Organic soil matter and carbon-iron coupling in permafrost soils
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: UHH, RRZ/MCC, Mentz
Photo: Russel privat
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
Key aspects of activity
- Moor ecosystems in Patagonia
- Hood-based trace gas flux measurements
- Monitoring greenhouse gas emissions from displaced peat in highway construction (A26)
Photo: Simran Sekhri
Key aspects of activity
- Land-use and land-management effects on soil water
- Sandy soils of the Kavango region in northern Namibia
- Ability of drought resistant plants to utilize deep water sources
- Vapor re-condensation and soil water balances
Photo: Joseph Tamale
PostDoc
Allende-Platz 2
20146 Hamburg
Room: 427, AP2
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: Melanie Kern
Scientist in DFG-project "Process-oriented cryoturbation modelling"
Allende-Platz 2
20146 Hamburg
Room: 115, AP2
Telephone: +49 40 42838-2017
Key aspects of activity
- Process-oriented modelling
- Biogeophysical soil processes
- Soils in permafrost regions
- Cryoturbation
Photo: Lizeth Vásconez Navas
Key aspects of activity
- Master in Sustainable Resource Management, TU München, 2017, with specialization in soil and water resources and protection of forest ecosystems; master thesis: Xylem hydraulic adjustment of Castanea sativa, Pinus sylvestris and Quercus spp. seedlings to air warming and soil drought
- Monitoring and analyses of soil hydrological properties in hardwood floodplain forest soils
- Analysis of xylem sap flow velocity of floodplain hardwood species under different soil moisture regimes and meteorological conditions
Photo: Carolina Voigt
Junior research group leader COLDSPOT
Allende-Platz 2
20146 Hamburg
Room: 315 b, AP2
Telephone: +49 40 2395-25606
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: Evan Wilcox
Key aspects of activity
- Hydrology of Arctic environments
- Snow-vegetation-permafrost interactions
- Hydrological applications of stable water isotopes
Photo: Lin Yu
Research associate
Allende-Platz 2
20146 Hamburg
Room: 307, AP2
Telephone: +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
Technical, administrative and library staff
Photo: UHH, RRZ/MCC, Mentz
Library
Allende-Platz 2
20146 Hamburg
Room: 302, AP 2
Telephone: +49 40 2395-22004
Office hours
- Monday - Wednesday, Friday: 8.00 -12.00
Key aspects of activity
- Library
- Series "Hamburg Soil Science Studies" [Hamburger Bodenkundliche Arbeiten]
- Internet presentation
- FIS input
Photo: UHH, RRZ/MCC, Mentz
Office
Allende-Platz 2
20146 Hamburg
Room: 302a, AP 2
Telephone: +49 40 2395-24041
Email: IfB"AT"uni-hamburg.de
Office hours
- Mo - Fr 9 - 12 Uhr
Key aspects of activity
- Office
Technical employee
Allende-Platz 2
20146 Hamburg
Room: 428, AP2
Telephone: +49 40 2395-27270
Email: Ralf.Lendt"AT"uni-hamburg.de
Laboratory assistant
Allende-Platz 2
20146 Hamburg
Room: 203, 428, AP2
Telephone: +49 40 2395-23512
Email: sumita.rui"AT"uni-hamburg.de