Positions
Dr. Jens Boy
Dr. Jens Boy
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Herrenhäuser Straße 2
30419 Hannover
30419 Hannover
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Representatives for Research Staff
Examination Board, Geosciences
Assistant Lecturers
Institute of Soil Science
Assistant Lecturers
Soil Science Section
Assistant Lecturers
Section Soil Chemistry
Focus in research and teaching
- Biogeochemistry in forest and agricultural ecosystems
- Biogenic weathering as a driver of soil formation and landscape genesis
- Mycorrhiza-plant-soil interactions
- Conversion processes and control parameters of soil organic matter
- Influence of aerosol long-range transport on the ecosystem nutrient balance
- Biodiversity-driven soil processes (esp. nutrient niching)
- Biophysical principles of climate-oriented financial derivatives (PES & REDD) Soil processes in extreme habitats (Antarctica, Aacama)
Curriculum vitae
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Professional background
1992-2000
Double degree in Biology (Diploma) and Teaching Qualification for the Upper School (L3) at the Justus-Liebig University of Gießen, 1996 semester abroad in Chile (Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia)
2001-2003
Research associate at the Institute for Geoecology (Soil Science) at the University of Bayreuth, work at the Estación Cientifica San Francisco, Loja, Ecuador
2003-2005
Research associate at the Institute for Environmental Sciences at the TU Berlin
2005-2007
Research associate at the Institute of Geography at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, completion of doctorate ‘External drivers of biogeochemical cycles in a tropical montane forest in Ecuador (2009)’
2008
Seminar for Rural Development (SLE) at Humboldt University Berlin, research specialist for the German Technical Cooperation (gtz, now giz) and CIFOR in the field of Payment for Environmental Services (PES) and Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) in Ankasa Forest Reserve, Ghana
Since 2009
University Assistant in Geosciences at the Institute of Soil Science
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Activities in research networks
- Vice spokesperson of the BMBF-BioTip project Prodigy
- Steering-board of the DFG- SPP earthshape
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Expertise activities
Expert for research proposals
- Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica (CONICYT, Chile)
- Instituto Antárctico Chileno (INACH)
Ad hoc expert for
- Geoderma
- Catena
- Plant and Soil
- Biology and Fertility of Soils
- Global Change Biology
- Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science
