Team SoFer
Professors
Research and teaching assistant
Doctoral researchers
MSc. Pezhman Salehi Hosseini
Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, room B38.11.110.023
MSc. Tamir Enkh-Amgalan
Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, room B38.11.110.023
MSc. Gertrude Scynthya Nirukshan
Faculty of Bioscience Engineering
ir. Astrid Françoys
Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, room B38.11.110.018
+32 (0)9 264 60 57
MSc. Patria Novita Kusumawardani
Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, room B38.11.110.023
Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, room B38.11.110.017
+32 (0)9 264 60 66
robin.beckx@ugent.be> more info
Administrative and technical staff
Former researchers
MSc. Kanagaratnam Jegajeevagan
dr. ir. Peter Maenhout
ir. Laura Agneessens
dr. ir. Arne Verstraeten
dr. Masuda Akter
dr. Jones Yengwe
ir. Lisa Mabilde
ir. Sofie Pierreux
dr. ir. Stany Vandermoere
dr. Mesfin Tsegaye
MSc. Okky Amalia
dr. ir. Heleen Deroo
dr. Hui Xu
dr. Haichao Li
ir. Jeroen De Waele
MSc. Zenia Gonzalez Giro
MSc. Hector Hernandez Arbolaez
MSc. Oka Ardiana Banaty
dr. Orly Mendoza
dr. Zerihun Getachew Gebrehana
dr. Ummehani Hassi
Master thesis students
2023-2024
Carmen de León (International Master of Science in Soils and Global Change): Assessing microplastics degradation in soil
Angelica Ramirez Moguel (International Master of Science in Soils and Global Change): Soil phosphorus (P) mining in agriculture – Impacts on P availability, crop yields and soil organic carbon stocks after 10 years of experimentation
Malaika Andrade (International Master of Science in Soils and Global Change): Influence of Fungivorous Nematodes on Nitrous Oxide Emissions in soils
Noa del Carme (Master of Science in Nutrition and Food Systems): Converting a conventional tea farm to organic production in Thyolo highlands, Malawi
Jieqing Zhang (Master in Sustainable Land Management): Is there a dose effect on the efficiency of added organic matter (OM) conversion into stable soil OM?
2022-2023
Lies Vanthournout (Bioscience Engineering: Agricultural sciences): Identifying and analyzing microplastics in non-suspected soils
Xu Zhang (International Master of Science in Soils and Global Change): Effect of soil organic matter quality on the soil moisture – heterotrophic respiration relationship
2021-2022
Veva Speeckaert (Bioscience Engineering: Environmental Technology): Are soil microplastics leaching and threatening our groundwater?
Arne Verschueren (Bioscience Engineering: Land, water and climate): How do multi-trophic interactions between microbivorous and herbivorous micro- and mesofauna impact nutrient cycling and plant growth?
Maitreya Maitreya (International Master of Science in Soils and Global Change): Extent of (micro)plastics pollution in non-suspected soils
Meng Kong (International Master of Science in Soils and Global Change): Contribution of soil microfauna to N2O emissions from soil
Tefera Dadi (International Master of Science in Soils and Global Change): Is groundwater depth a significant determinant of organic matter degradation in arable land during periods of drought?