I am interested in restoration efforts to get soils back to health and facility soil ecosystem services. I am in particular interested in nutrient cycling capabilities of soil microbes and how degraded soils or soil-like environments can be improved to restore ecosystem services. I have a publication record on nutrient cycling in grasslands and cropland and I am currently involved in 2 European projects PotatoMETAbiome and ReNu2Farm where my group is investigating N, P and S cycling under different potato varieties and under use of recycling derived fertilizers. My group has previously also contributed to a restoration project of bauxite residues to develop soil like environments. In that project I was looking into the establishment of bacterial communities that are typical to soils. I would be happy to provide my expertise to a soil restoration project where nutrient cycling and/or microbial diversity needs to be investigated.

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