Agricultural water management
Water is fundamental to all life and for all the processes on and in the soil. The management of water is one of the biggest challenges in agriculture, especially in a world of changing climate that affects the conditions.
Soil mechanics and soil management
Our research aims to understand how soil management and natural processes impact soil properties, processes, and functions. The focus is on soil structure and associated soil mechanical and hydraulic properties, but our research covers all aspects of soil quality/soil health.
Soil and environmental physics
Soil and Environmental Physics deals with the physical transport processes that regulate flows of energy and matter in the soil-plant-atmosphere system.
Soil biology
Fungi, bacteria and animals form complex communities in soil and interact with plant roots, organic matter and minerals. Soil organisms play an important role in agriculture and forestry and are central to the regulation of carbon and nutrient cycling in ecosystems.
Soil nutrient cycling
In the context of global food and water security, current concerns of climate change and environmental degradation, soil functioning plays a crucial role. Therefore, our research focuses on furthering our understanding of complex process-interactions from the microbial soil habitat scale to the field-scale.
Soil chemistry
The chemistry of soils affects our life in many ways. Food production, forestry, and the effects of pollution on ecosystems are all dependent on chemical reactions that occur in soils.
Biogeochemistry of forest soils
We study the interactions between chemical, biological, geological and physical processes governing element cycling in forest soils.