Positions
Prof. Dr. Georg Guggenberger
Prof. Dr. Georg Guggenberger
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Fax
Address
Herrenhäuser Straße 2
30419 Hannover
30419 Hannover
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Prof. Dr. Georg Guggenberger
Vice-Dean of Research
Dean's Office, Natural Sciences
Executive Director
Institute of Soil Science
Executive Director
Soil Science Section
Chairperson
Admissions Board for MSc Landscape Sciences
Representatives for Professors
Curriculum and Teaching Committee, Geosciences (BSc) / (MSc)
Deputy Representatives for Professors
Examination Board, Geosciences
Deputy Representatives for Professors
Admissions Board for MSc Geosciences
Professors
Institute of Soil Science
Professors
Section Soil Chemistry
Professors
Soil Science Section
Focus in research and teaching
- Transformation and stabilisation processes of soil organic matter
- Impact of land use and climate change on soil organic matter
- Mineral-organic associations
- Plant-mycorrhizal soil interface
- Carbon balance of permafrost soils
- Nitrogen-carbon interactions in soil
Curriculum vitae
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Professional background
1992-1995/1996-2002:
Research assistant at the Chair of Soil Science and Soil Geography at the University of Bayreuth
1995-1996:
Post-doc at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA
1999-2001:
Temporary professorship in soil biology and soil ecology at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
2002-2008:
University professor of soil biology and soil ecology at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
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Education
1982-1987:
Degree in Geoecology at the University of Bayreuth
1988-1989:
Civilian service
1989-1992:
Completing the doctoral thesis under Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Zech (Chair of Soil Science and Soil Geography at the University of Bayreuth); title of the dissertation ‘Properties of dissolved organic substances (DOM) at different immission-polluted spruce locations’
1998:
Habilitation in soil science at the University of Bayreuth. Title of the habilitation thesis: ‘Transformation and function of soil organic matter’
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Memberships
Member of the review board of the journals:
- Biology and Fertility of Soils
- European Journal of Soil Science
- Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science
Reviewer for research proposals:
- German Research Foundation (Division of Life Sciences; Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Earth Sciences)
- Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- Federal Ministry of Education and Research
- German Federal Environmental Foundation
- German Academic Exchange Service
- German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development
- EU Commission
- European Science Foundation
- National Science Foundation (USA)
- Swiss National Science Foundation
- Federal Department of Home Affairs
- Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research
- Ministry of Education of Flanders (Belgium)
