Current projects
Professorship of Soil Science
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- since 10/2025 "RootFlux+ Root-soil interactions , preferential flow paths and in-situ monitoring of root exudate fluxes in forest soils under different deciduous and coniferous tree species", teaching research project, Friedrich Schiller University Jena
- since 2025 "PoToMa- Potentials of deadwood management". FNR-funded research project in cooperation with ThüringenForst and TU Dresden. Project coordination and sub-project "Soil and nutrient dynamics"
- since 2023 DFG-SPP1374 "Biodiversity Exploratories - Plant-Enzyme Interactions
along gradients of resource stoichiometry (PEGasuS)". (DFG TI 952/5-1, 2023-2026) - since 2023 REGULUS joint project: ResEt-Fi - Paving the way for reforestation: Regional land management for the development of multifunctional forests on disturbed spruce areas. Subproject 3 (033L304C; BMBF, 2023-2026)
- since 10/2022 "preFALL - Effects of simulated drought stress and bark beetle-induced premature spruce needle shedding on material cycles in the forest soil and their change after soil fires", teaching research project, Friedrich Schiller University Jena de
- 11/2021 - 06/2025 Integration of deadwood in direct seeding methods of silver fir ( deAbies alba) and pedunculate oak ( deQuercus robur) for the reasons of stable, climate-tolerant mixed forest ecosystems in the urban forest of Hildburghausen (2220WK65A4) de
- 07/2021 - 06/2025 DFG collaborative research centre SFB 1076 "AquaDiva- Understanding the links between surface and subsurface biogeosphere" (http://www.aquadiva.uni-jena.de/). Subproject B01 "Interactions of Forest Structure and Plant Functional Biodiversity as Drivers of Water, Organic Matter, and Nutrient Fluxes" de
- since 10/2020 German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig funded project "Traversing the canopy - how do transport processes of microbes and matter shape phyllosphere microbial communities?". Co-PI participation using the iDiv research platform "Leipziger Auwaldkran" to investigate biotic and abiotic processes in the canopy. https://www. idiv.de/de/forschung/plattformen.html#3External link
- 05/2020 - 04/2023 Collaborative research project HolzDeko - Investigations on wood decomposition in the mineral soil as well as in and on the overlay of limed and unlimed forest soils: TP VI - Determination of enzyme activities / kinetics in soil and wood de
- 07/2019 "Tracking the impact of abiotic and biotic stressors on the biogeochemistry of trees with morbidity: a greenhouse experiment", DAAD P.R.I.M.E. funded research project at the University of Delaware (USA) and Friedrich Schiller University Jena
- since 2019 Reintroduction of silver fir and oak species by direct seeding in single-layer pure spruce stands - ecological factors of seedling establishment de
- since 2018 Green eyes in Thuringia and Saxony - long-term studies on the establishment and effect of copper beech groups in pure spruce and pine stands de
- 12/2018 - 12/2019 "The ecology of the rhizosphere - site selection/investigations along biogenic/geogenic gradients in forests" Funding: Programme for the promotion of third-party funding of young scientists 2018 - funding line B of the FSU Jena
- 07/2017-06/2021 DFG collaborative research centre SFB 1076 "AquaDiva- Understanding the links between surface and subsurface biogeosphere" (http://www.aquadiva.uni-jena.de/)." Subproject B01 "Composition of tree-derived organic matter and its effect on subsurface microbial processes: feedback to plants and nutrient cycling" de
- since 05/2015 "Effects of a plant pathogen infection with Phytophthora agathidicida on the biogeochemistry of a Kauri (Agathis australis) dominated forest stand in New Zealand" self-funded project in collaboration with Dr Luitgard Schwendenmann, School of Environment, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand. de
- since 07/2014 Research project in cooperation with the Hainich National Park "Meadow ants as ecosystem engineers and regulators for biogeochemical heterogeneity on extensively grazed pastures"