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Function
Researcher / Scientific Lead BIOGEO Team
Member of scientific steering committee of the CLAND convergence institute
Research interests
Analysis and projections of phosphorus limitations on agricultural production and past & future carbon sequestration using process models and experimental data
Development of statistical & process-based models for phosphorus cycling and inter-linkages with other biogeochemical cycles and human activities
CV
- 2022 – Habilitation à diriger des recherches / Université Paris Saclay / Saclay / France
- 2020 – current Research Associate University Paris-Saclay / Saclay / France
- 2019 – 2020 Research Associate / Lecturer Institute of Geography / Augsburg University / Augsburg / Germany
- 2015 – 2019 Research Associate Le Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement / Gif-Sur-Yvette / France
- 2013 – 2015 Research Associate Max Planck Institute for Meteorology / Hamburg / Germany
Scientific output
publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=jN_OTdMAAAAJ
SPINacc – land surface model accelerator: https://github.com/CALIPSO-project/SPINacc
Projects
- 2023 – 2028 Schmidt Science CALIPSO
- 2022 – 2026 Horizon EuropeWET HORIZIONS
- 2022 – 2026 Horizon Europe ClieNFarms: climate neutral farming
- 2022 – 2025 EJP Soil ICONICA: Impact of long-term phosphorus additions on agricultural soils
- 2022 – 2026 Horizon Europe RESCUE: Understanding the impact of CO2 removal
- 2021 – 2024 Horizon Europe PROVIDE: Paris Agreement Overshooting – Reversibility, Climate Impacts and Adaptation Needs
- 2018 – 2022 ESA CCI Biomass
- 2018 – 2023 NSF RCN-INCyTE: Investigating nutrient cycling in terrestrial ecosystems”
- 2018 – 2022 NERC. “Quintus” Quinquennial (half-decadal) carbon and nutrient dynamics in temperate forests: Implications for carbon sequestration in a high carbon dioxide world
- 2016–2021 ERC. “IMBALANCE-P” Effects of phosphorus limitations on Life, Earth system and Society
- 2016 – 2020 DFG. “The role of phosphorus in limiting Amazon rainforest productivity under global environmental change”
Outreach /Press (selection)
Physicsworld: Sprinkling basalt over soil could remove huge amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
Phys.org: How crushed rocks can help capture carbon dioxide
Deutschlandfunk: Forschung aktuell 15/12/2020, Fischzucht hat Zukunft, verbraucht aber zuviel Phosphor
Spiegel: Aquakulturen gefährden die Nahrungssicherheit, Pflanzen tun sich zunehmend als Klimaretter schwer
Frankfurter Rundschau: Der gruenen Lunge fehlt es an Phosphor
Tagesspiegel: Das Potential von Basalt-Verwitterung zur Bindung von Kohlenstoff
ORF: Amazonien: Schwächelt die Klimaanlage? , Fischzucht verbraucht zu viel Phosphor, Basalt: CO2-Schlucker mit Vor- und Nachteilen