Material cycles and ecosystem processes

Projects (current):

• "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
• 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
• "Impact 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
• "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
  
• 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#External link

Projects (completed):

• 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" (in co-operation with Prof. Nicole van Dam, Molecular Interaction Ecology, FSU Jena, German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig).
• DFG collaborative research centre SFB 1076 "AquaDiva- Understanding the links between surface and subsurface biogeosphere" (http://www.aquadiva.uni-jena.de/)." Sub-project FLUX1 "Effects of ecosystem disturbances on organic matter cycling and its distribution in the upper critical zone characterised by MALDI-MSI"
• Higrade II (Helmholtz Interdisciplinary Graduate School for Environmental Research)- Programme "Stabilisation and Dynamic of soil organic matter in relation to land management practices " (in cooperation with Prof. F. Buscot/ Dr. E. Schulz/ Dr. J. Gutknecht, UFZ Halle/Leipzig)
• Research project as part of an Alexander v. Humboldt scholarship together with Dr Delphis F. Levia (University of Delaware): A pilot study to investigate the effects of the woolly beech aphid on the hydrology and biogeochemistry of German European beech forests
• Thuringian "ProExzellenz"- State Programme, Project "AquaDiv@Jena" Effects of disturbance events & experimental manipulations on matter fluxes and transformations in soils
• DFG collaborative research centre- SFB 552 "STORMA- Stability of Rainforst Margins in Indonesia", subproject B5: Effects of ENSO droughts and land-use practices on soil C, N, P dynamics in a tropical rainforest and agroforestry systems in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. (University of Göttingen)
• New and continuation proposals in the DFG Priority Programme 1374 "Exploratories for large-scale & long-term functional biodiversity research". Subproject "BeCycles - Element cycles in forests and grasslands of the Biodiversity Exploratories: Response to management intensity and associated biodiversity - Hainich-Dün"
• Dynamics and significance of canopy-derived dissolved and particulate organic matter (DOM and POM) in the C and N budget of two forest ecosystems. Duration: 1 year (University of Göttingen)
• DFG single application: Dynamics and significance of canopy-derived dissolved and particulate organic matter (DOM and POM) in the C and N budget of two forest ecosystems. Duration: 2 + 1 year (University of Göttingen)