Prof. Dr. Ingrid Kögel-Knabner, Technische Universität München
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Prof. Dr. Ingrid Kögel-Knabner

Nominated by

  • Acatech - National Academy of Science and Engineering
  • German Research Foundation (DFG)
  • National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
  • AcademiaNet member since 17.05.2010
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Employed by

  • Technische Universität München


Further professional affiliations (employer name only)

  • Institute of Advanced Study TU München, Garching


Academic Discipline/Fields

  • Agriculture, forestry, fisheries and veterinary
  • Natural sciences, mathematics and statistics


Field

Agriculture, Environment



Area of specialisation

Soil science



Research interests

  • Organic matter in soils

  • Role of soils in the carbon cycle

  • Organo-mineral compounds in soils



Distinctions and Awards

  • Emil Ramann Medal from the German Soil Science Society, 2015

  • Philippe-Duchaufour-Medal European Geosciences Union, 2015

  • Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, 2013

  • Member of the committee on ecology, Bavarian Academy of Sciences, since 2008

  • Member of the German National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech), since 2007

  • Member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, since 2001

  • Offer of a C4 professorship in sedimentary systems at RWTH Aachen University, in conjunction with the position of director of the Institute of Sedimentary Systems at Forschungszentrum Jülich research centre; declined, 1999

  • Offer of a C4 professorship in soil science and soil conservation at the Faculty of Agriculture, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany; declined, 1994



Languages

English, French



Doctorate

  • 1987: Organische Stoffgruppen in Waldhumusformen und ihr Verhalten während der Streuzersetzung und Humifizierung ("Organic substance groups in forest humus forms and their behaviour during litter decomposition and humification ")


PostDoc qualification, e.g. Habilitation

  • 1992: Forest soil organic matter: structure and formation




Short CV/Education and training

  • 1978
    Abitur (A-levels), Richard Wagner Gymnasium (grammar school), Bayreuth, Germany

  • 1978 – 1983
    Diplom degree in geoecology from the University of Bayreuth

  • 1983 – 1985
    Academic staff member in the Department of Soil Science, University of Bayreuth

  • 1985 – 1987
    Teaching assistant as primary occupation in the Department of Soil Science, University of Bayreuth

  • 1987
    Doctorate in biology/chemistry/Earth science from the University of Bayreuth, magna cum laude: Organic substance groups in forest humus forms and their behaviour during litter decomposition and humification

  • 1987 – 1992
    Academic councillor (temporary appointment) in the Department of Soil Science, University of Bayreuth

  • 1992
    Habilitation (postdoctoral qualification) in the field of soil science at the University of Bayreuth: Forest soil organic matter: structure and formation

  • 1992
    Appointment as C3 university professor of soil science and soil ecology at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

  • 1995
    Appointment as C4 university professor of soil science in the Faculty of Agriculture, Technical University of Munich, Germany (now the Centre of Life and Food Sciences Weihenstephan)

  • 2011
    Carl von Linde Senior Fellow TUM Institute of Advanced Study

Selected publications

Membership in scientific bodies/juries

  • Member of the senate and executive committee of the German Research Foundation (DFG), 2009 – 2015

  • Member of the science council committee on research buildings, 2007 – 2013

  • Vice dean of research, Centre of Life and Food Sciences Weihenstephan, 2003 – 2006

  • Member of the DFG senate committee on joint research in Earth science, 2002 – 2006

  • Member of the executive committee, Bavarian Research Association for Waste Research and Recycling (Bayforrest), since 2000

  • Member of the board of trustees, German Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR), Hannover, Germany, 2000 – 2009

  • Member of the senate, Technical University of Munich, Germany, 2000 – 2003

  • Member of the scientific advisory board of the German Research Centre for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany 1998 – 2001

  • Member of the DFG senate committee on substances and resources in agriculture, since 1996, chairperson since 2006

Soft Skills/Other activities and achievements

Other activities and achievements/family

  • married, three children


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