Invited by the University of Bayreuth: Guests at BayCEER

Invited by the University of Bayreuth: Guests at BayCEER

2020-03-30

After the first calls for proposals from the newly established Bayreuth Humboldt Centre, it is now clear who will be visiting the University of Bayreuth as a Senior/Junior Fellow or with a Short Term Grants. The aim of the visits is to work on promising research collaborations with researchers in Bayreuth. As soon as the epidemic situation allows it, four of the guests from the first calls are expected to join working groups of the BayCEER.

As Senior Fellow and guest of Prof. Gerhard Gebauer, BayCEER Laboratory for Isotope Biogeochemistry, and Prof. Johanna Pausch, Agroecology, Prof. Vincent Merckx from the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden/Netherlands is expected to come. Their joint work challenges a dogma of plant sciences, according to which green plants completely cover their carbon needs through photosynthesis. They want to further elucidate the relevance of carbon produced by fungi - arbuscular mycorrhizae - in forest soil plants using natural abundances of stable isotopes, molecular reconstructions of mycorrhizae networks in forest soils and tracer experiments in the laboratory.

As Junior Fellow, Dr. Celia Rodriguez Dominguez will visit the Chair of Soil Physics of Prof. Andrea Carminati. She is an is an expert of tree vulnerability to drought working at the IRNAS-CSIC institute in Sevilla/Spain. During her fellowship at the University of Bayreuth she will conduct experiments with plants undergoing severe drought stress and measure the loss of xylem conductance as well as root shrinkage and the consequent loss of contact between roots and soil. Her visit to the Soil Physics group will help to gain a more comprehensive understanding of physiological plant responses to drought, including both above- and belowground mechanisms.

Within the framework of a Short Term Grant, Dr. Niloofar Karimian from the Geosciences at Southern Cross University/Australia will visit Prof. Britta Planer-Friedrich (Environmental Geochemistry) and Dr. Kerstin Hockmann (Hydrology). Their aim is to advance our fundamental understanding on the geochemistry of antimony – a critical mineral resource and environmental pollutant of growing concern that plays a growing role in daily lives. This will be achieved by investigating the interplay between antimony and metal oxides in multi-mineral systems. The expected outcomes will provide novel insights into refined strategies to manipulate coupling between antimony mobility and iron and manganese cycling for improved rehabilitation of degraded landscapes.

Prof. Heather Ann Viles - School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford / England - is a guest in Bayreuth with Prof. Oliver Sass, Chair of Geomorphology. Together they plan to explore the emerging field of "Heritage Hydrology" on effects of hydroclimate on the weathering of architectural monuments. Joint project activities and a review publication are planned. The concrete topics range from the influence of climate change on wind-driven rain and moisture in buildings to the effects of lichens and higher vegetation on the water balance.

As far as possible, the guests will present their research in public lectures at the BayCEER Kolloquium.



https://www.humboldt-centre.uni-bayreuth.de/en/fellows-and-grantees/index.html
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