The Soil Chemistry and Chemical Soil Quality group invites applications from candidates for a professorship to strengthen our team. You will contribute to the further advancement of our research on soil chemical processes driving environmental change, using quantitative and mechanistic approaches, and complement the existing knowledge in our group. Furthermore, you will teach in our bachelor's and master's program.
We encourage applications at both assistant and associate professor, and also consider candidates that may qualify directly for a position as full professor. Given our current gender balance, we strongly encourage female applicants to apply. The anticipated start date of the position is July 1st 2021.
The chair group
Soil Chemistry and Chemical Soil Quality is engaged in fundamental soil chemical research and education. We seek to develop a generic understanding of processes at the molecular scale and nanoscale, in relation to ecosystem services such as soil fertility, carbon sequestration, and sustainment of soil and groundwater quality. Furthermore, we focus on how these underlying processes and functions are influenced by closing cycles and increasing use of residual/waste materials in the soil environment. We follow a research strategy based on novel experimental/analytical techniques and geochemical model development and application.
Our group also runs a large state-of-the-art chemical
laboratory and
WEPAL, a world-leading organiser of proficiency testing programmes for soil, sediment, plants and organic waste.
Our main research themes are:
- Soil fertility: soil chemical controls on the bioavailability of nutrients, and their coupling to biological processes, in support of sustainable nutrient management and food security.
- Environmental geochemistry: identifying and quantifying processes that control soil and groundwater quality; new challenges arising from increasing recycling of materials ("circular economy") and behaviour of emerging contaminants.
- Soil carbon: biogeochemical processes controlling carbon sequestration and nutrient availability; analytical characterization of soil carbon in light of its multiple roles in soil functioning.