Team SoFer
Professors
Research and teaching assistant
Doctoral researchers

MSc. Gertrude Scynthya Nirukshan
Faculty of Bioscience Engineering
MSc. Tamir Enkh-Amgalan
Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, room B38.11.110.023

Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, room B38.11.110.023

ir. Robin Beckx
Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, room B38.11.110.017
+32 (0)9 264 60 66
robin.beckx@ugent.be> more info

MSc. Lucia Borras Gonzalez
Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, room B38.11.110.017
+32 (0)9 264 60 66
lucia.borras@ugent.be> more info
ir. Justine Luca
Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, room B38.11.110.023

MSc. Tesfahun Belay Mihrete
Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, room B38.11.110.023
TesfahunBelay.Mihrete@ugent.be> more info
Administrative and technical staff
Former researchers
MSc. Kanagaratnam Jegajeevagan
ir. Laura Agneessens
dr. Masuda Akter
ir. Lisa Mabilde
dr. ir. Stany Vandermoere
MSc. Okky Amalia
dr. Hui Xu
ir. Jeroen De Waele
MSc. Hector Hernandez Arbolaez
dr. Orly Mendoza
dr. Ummehani Hassi
MSc. Pezhman Salehi Hosseini
dr. ir. Peter Maenhout
dr. ir. Arne Verstraeten
dr. Jones Yengwe
ir. Sofie Pierreux
dr. Mesfin Tsegaye
dr. ir. Heleen Deroo
dr. Haichao Li
MSc. Zenia Gonzalez Giro
MSc. Oka Ardiana Banaty
dr. Zerihun Getachew Gebrehana
dr. ir. Astrid Françoys
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
The Distribution of Pristine and Aged Microplastics in Soil Aggregate Fractions
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?













