Thesis supervision
Topics in my general field of interest is welcome for a thesis proposal. Directly contact me via email.
My current interests include: urban heat island intensity, mechanisms of cooling by urban greenspaces, soil geochemistry of carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus and silicon, litter decomposition and characterization with FTIR.
Alternatively you can be inspired by the topics below for ongoing/open theses. Contact me for topics that are marked OPEN
- Topics:
- Assessing available phosphorus contents and its relationship with silicon fractions in oil-palm fields under high- and low-input management systems (OPEN, Lab intensive)
- Predicting element contents in beech litter samples using Fourier transformed infrared (FT-MIR) spectroscopy (OPEN, background in data analysis and statistics is required)
- Predicting soil organic matter fractions with mid- and near-FTIR (OPEN, interest and background in data analysis and statistics is required)
- Prediction soil phosphorus fractions using FT-MIR spectra (assigned)
- Soil organic matter composition in a woodland pasture of southern Transylvania (Assigned)
- Response of soil organic matter pools to microclimatic conditions in in high-mountain alpine soils (OPEN, Lab intensive)
- Soil nutrient levels of oil palm fields under high- and low-input management systems (Assigned)
- Soil salinity and sea level rise in the Camargue, France (Assigned) --> Several OPEN topics still available on saline soil geochemistry
- Photosynthetic productivity and ecophysiological responses of Larch (Larix decidua Mill) under European alpine conditions (Completed)
- Temporal variability of soil and microclimatic conditions of green areas with different urbanization exposure (Assigned)
- Spatio-temporal variability of soil properties in an Alpine meadow, resulting soil-moisture/temperature patterns, and implications for differential response to climate change (Assigned)
- Energy dynamics of an alpine meadow at the treeline ecotone in the Swiss Alps (Completed)