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Institute of Soil Science

Photo: Christina Steffens, UHH, Institut für Bodenkunde

Dr. Christina Steffens

Christina Steffens

Photo: Christina Steffens

Postdoc

Address

University of Hamburg
Allende-Platz 2
20146 Hamburg

Office

AP2
Room: 115

Contact

Tel: +49 40 42838-2017

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

Curriculum Vitae

Since 2023: Project management in the BMBF funded project “MOMENT”
2022-2023 Collaboration within the permanent soil monitoring: carbon dynamics in cropland
2015-2022 Temporal position for principal investigators in the DFG-Project: „The influence of deciduous tree species on soil carbon dynamics and sequestration in temperate forests“; Postdoc at the Institute of Soil Science, Universität Hamburg
2013-2014 Fellowship of young initiative of the Universität Hamburg; Institute of Soil Science, Universität Hamburg
2012 Dr. rer. nat. on the topic: „Effects of nutrient cycling through litter of different broadleaved deciduous tree species on soil biochemical properties and the dynamics of carbon and nitrogen in soil”
2008-2012 PhD-student at the DFG-Graduate School 1086; Soil Science of temperate and boreal ecosystems, Georg August Universität Göttingen
2008 Diploma in landscape ecology, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg

Publications