Projekte

SPARKS - Smart Platform for Advanced Research & Knowledge of Soils
This project, supported by ProLehre, analyzes different AI-based chat platforms to enable novel forms of interactive learning during lectures and free-study based on specific soil knowledge.
 

Locating microbial metabolite hotspots to resolve soil energy and organic carbon dynamics (SoilEnergySpots) 
This project is supported by the DFG (2025-2028) as part of the Special Priority Program 2322 ‘‘SoilSystems: Systems ecology of soils – energy discharge modulated by microbiome and boundary conditions”
Further information Contact: PhD student Sidra Ahmad
 

Potential uses of biochar and Terra Preta in Bavarian agriculture – contribution to climate protection and climate adaptation – project phase 2 – TerraBayt 2.0
This project is supported by the Bavarian State ministry for Nutrition, Agriculture and Forestry (2025-2027)
Further information
 

Inside the black box of N cycling: resolving N release from slurry to cropland soil through Energy fluxes and Organic Matter turnover – NEOM
This project is supported by the AgroMissionHub (2024-2025)
Further information Contact: Postdoc Dr. Cennet Yildiz
 

Soil Pores affecting Carbon Mineralisation at nanoscales (SoilPACMAN) - Determining how soil organic carbon dynamics are locally controlled by the organo-mineral microenvironment of microbes in the pore space
This project is supported by the ANR and DFG (2023-2026) as part of the bilateral French-German call in life sciences.
Project partners: Naoise Nunan (CNRS), Xavier Raynaud (Université Sorbonne)
Further information Contact: PhD student Haotian Wu
 

Linking land use intensity, biodiversity, soil microbial processes and organo-mineral interactions for a mechanistic understanding of N turnover in grassland ecosystems (BE_BioMON)
This project is supported by the DFG (2023-2026) as part of the Infrastructure Priority Program Biodiversity Exploratories.
Further information Contact: PhD student Narda Pacay Barrientos
 

Spatial data mining to resolve soil functions and organic matter dynamics (SoilCarbonHack)
This project is supported by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space and the European Union (NextGenerationEU) as part of the call “Digital transformation in education, science, and research” in the funding area “Strengthening the data skills of early career scientists”
Further information Contact: PhD student Yahan Hu