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Soil ecosystems form the foundation of planetary health and play a critical role in climate feedback mechanisms. However, they are also vulnerable to…
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Soil ecosystems form the foundation of planetary health and play a critical role in climate feedback mechanisms. However, they are also vulnerable to…

Hannes Schmidt, Senior Scientist at TER, received funding from the Austrian Science Fund’s 1000 Ideas program (“Tausend Ideen”). Congratulations,…

Congratulations to Paul Prinz, who successfully defended his MSc thesis on Wednesday April 9th, 2025.
His thesis on “Modelling the effect of…

Congratulations to Thayer Taft, who successfully defended his MSc thesis on Wednesday April 2nd, 2025.
His thesis on “Microbial activity responses…

Congratulations to Dr. Eva Simon, who successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled
"The fine-scale spatial organisation of the soil microbiome" on…

Iris Karbon successfully defended her Master’s thesis “Off-target Effects of Biological Nitrification Inhibitors in an Agricultural Soil” on March…

Congratulations to Dr. Julia Wiesenbauer, who successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled
"The spatiotemporal dynamics of microbial activity at a…

We are thrilled to announce that Ksenia Guseva has joined our team as a senior scientist.

Congratulations to Dr. Stefan Gorka, who successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled
"From phospholipids to neutral lipids: Characterising soil…