Junior group
DR. AGR. KATHRIN GRAHMANN
Scientific Coordinator
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Key Focus Areas
- Establishing the research field on soil and crop management impacts of field robotics
- Quantifying soil-based ecosystem services: biomass production & resource efficiency
- Scientific synthesis and development of solutions for identified trade-offs
Contact
+49 (0) 3343282-142
kathrin.grahmann@zalf.de
Dr. Agr. Grahmann bei ZALF
Dr. Adrija Roy
Scientific Researcher
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Key Focus Areas
- Implementation of innovative sensor technology
- Data fusion and simulation
- Development of a Digital Twin of the patchCROP landscape laboratory in the Farming Simulator
Contact
M.SC. LINA ROHLMANN
Scientific Researcher
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Key Focus Areas
- Evaluating the effects of soil cultivation with autonomous field robots on soil-based ecosystem services: filter function & water retention
- Comparing various field methods for quantifying hydrological soil properties
Contact
+49 (0)33432 82-379
lina.rohlmann@zalf.de
M.Sc. Lina Rohlmann bei ZALF
M.SC. LUKAS THIELEMANN
Scientific Researcher
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Key Focus Areas
- Assessing the effects of soil cultivation with autonomous field robots on carbon storage, the soil microbiome, and soil as a habitat
- Comparing different methods for estimating the quantity and quality of soil carbon
Contact
+49 (0)33432 82-504
lukas.thielemann@zalf.de
Lukas Thielemann bei ZALF
M.SC. BJÖRN WANG
Technical Staff
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Key Focus Area
- Sampling and measurement campaigns
- Soil parameter analysis
- Field robot operation and handling
Contact
+49 (0) 3343282-281
bjoern.wang@zalf.de
Björn Wang bei ZALF
Inna Matiash
Intern
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Key Focus Area
- Assisting in field sampling and measurement campaigns, laboratory work, and organizational tasks
Contact
Josefine Wimmer
Student Assistant
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Israt Shupon
Student Assistant
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Alumni
Sophie Trosper
DAAD-Alumni
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Focus Areas
- Assessment of the comparability of established and newly introduced infiltrometers in the field with different soil textures.
- Comparison of soil moisture content determination using mobile soil moisture sensors with direct soil moisture measurement and evaluation of spatial soil moisture heterogeneity.
- Participation in field sampling and various measurements for determining physical and hydrological soil parameters.
Contact
Emily Payne
DAAD-Alumni
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Focus Areas
- Assessment of the comparability between conventional methods and a smartphone app for measuring aggregate stability in different soil textures.
- Comparison of soil moisture measurements with mobile soil moisture sensors and direct measurements, as well as evaluation of spatial heterogeneity of soil moisture.
- Support in field sampling campaigns and various methods for determining soil carbon and soil biological parameters.
Contact
Moritz Triller
DAAD-Alumni
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Focus Areas
- Participation in sampling and measurement campaigns in the field and laboratory work, as well as organizational tasks.
- Assessment of a method for measuring the aggregate stability of soils using a rainfall simulator.
Contact
BILL GATES
"We should discuss soil as much
as we talk about coal"
LEONARDO DA VINCI
"We know more about the movement of celestial bodies than about the soil underfoot."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself."
Charles E. Kellogg
"Essentially, all life depends upon the soil"
Mahatma Gandhi
"To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves."
William Bryant Logan