Who we are

Core Team

Christoph Müller

Director of the Liebig Centre
Institute of Plant Ecology, Justus Liebig University

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Marc Schetelig

Deputy Director of the Liebig Centre
Department of Insect Biotechnology in Plant Protection, Justus Liebig University

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Christian Veldman

Liebig Centre Administration
Research office, Justus Liebig University

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JLU Experts

  • Gerald Moser, Director of the GiessenFACE platform, Expert in climate change impact studies
  • Tobias Sandner, Plant population biology and response to environmental stresses
  • Kristina Kleineidam, Elemental cycling of nutrients and GHG emissions
  • Marianna Deppe, Stable isotope ecology
  • Uwe Grüters, Modelling the effect of climate change on plant biodiversity
  • Irina Häcker, Mosquito genetics and control strategies
  • Emily Poggenborg-Martin, Animal Ecology
  • Gerd Hamscher, Food Chemistry and Food Biotechnology
  • Holger Zorn, Food Chemistry and Food Biotechnology
  • Andreas Gattinger, Organic farming
  • Martin Petrick, Agricultural, Food and Environmental Policy
  • Michael Frei, Agronomy and Crop Physiology
  • Jan Siemens, Soil Resources
  • Jakob Santner, Plant Nutrition
  • Klaus Eder, Animal Nutrition
  • Sylvia Schnell, General and Soil Microbiology
  • Jürg Luterbacher, Elena Xoplaki, Climatology, Climate Dynamics and Climate Change
  • Lea Schneider, Climate-environment-human relationships
  • Christian Borsch, Methodology platform ‚Stable isotopes and cell biology’
  • Sylvia Rudloff, Methodology platform ‚Stable isotopes and cell biology’
  • Xun Luo, Translational Science and Public relations

Global Experts

  • Claudia Kammann, Biochar Expert, Hochschule Geisenheim University, Germany
  • Alexander von Birgelen, Plant systems for urban areas, Hochschule Geisenheim University, Germany
  • Florence Renou-Willson, Peatland expert, University College Dublin, Ireland
  • Thomas Cummins, Anthropogenic soils and ecosystem monitoring, University College Dublin, Ireland
  • Aleksander Westphal Muniz, Biogeochemical cycling in Amazonian ecosystems, Embrapa, Brazil
  • Zucong Cai, Plant-soil interactions, Nanjing Normal University, China
  • Jinbo Zhang, Stable isotope tracing expert, Hainan University, China
  • Yi Cheng, Soil nitrogen cycling and global change, Nanjing Normal University, China
  • Tim Clough, C-N transformations in agroecosystems, Lincoln University, New Zealand
  • Richard Mulwa, Environmental Law and Policy, University of Nairobi, Kenya
  • Wolfgang Wanek, Plant and microbial functioning and terrestrial ecosystem processes, University of Vienna, Austria
  • Yoshitaka Uchida, Environmental Biogeochemistry, Hokkaido University, Japan
  • Tualar Simarmata, Soil Science and Land Resources, Universitas Padjadjaran, Indonesia
  • Mohammad M.R. Jahangir, Climate smart agriculture and Isotope biogeochemistry, Bangladesh Agriculture University, Bangladesh
  • Pierfrancesco Nardi, Climate change mitigation and adaptation, CREA, Italy
  • Ahmed Elrys, Global evaluation of C-N cycling in terrestrial ecosystems, University of Al Dhaid, United Arab Emirates

Member Organisations

Partners are typically organisation such as Universities or other Research organisations (visible via their Logo on the www.liebig-centre.org website)

Partners will contribute to the running of the Liebig Centre, e.g. via hosting Liebig Centre Trainees, Teaching in the Master programme etc.

HLNUG, Germany
Hochschule Geisenheim University, Germany
University of Vienna, Austria
University College Dublin, Ireland
CREA, Italy
Bangladesh Agriculture University
Padjadjaran University, Indonesia
Embrapa, Brazil
Hainan University, China
Tsinghua University, China

Industry Partners

Partners are typically organisation such as Universities or other Research organisations (visible via their Logo on the www.liebig-centre.org website)

Partners will contribute to the running of the Liebig Centre, e.g. via hosting Liebig Centre Trainees, Teaching in the Master programme etc.