The Group

Established in 2019 at ETH Zurich’s Department of Environmental Systems Science, at the Soil Resources (SR) group our passion is to study environmental processes, in particular related to soil development and biogeochemical cycling, aiming to understand how these cycles interact and are affected by humans. We are working highly interdisciplinary using a wide range of methods and across both spatial and temporal scales, including:

• Global and regional scale soil dynamics and biogeochemical cycling along geo-​climatic gradients. Involving, experiments, models, remotes sensing and geostatistics.
  
• Land degradation and soil mobilization within complex landscapes
• Soil development and soil alteration in high latitudes and altitudes
• Improving our understanding of plant-​microbiota-soil interactions in relation to pedogenesis, geochemistry and human activity

Our research is often located in areas that are still understudied and that are facing grave climatic and land use changes in upcoming decades such as Tropical Africa, High Latitude Environments and High Altitude Environments. SR is member and supporter of ETH’s World Food Systems Center, the ETH4D initiative, the external pageZurich-​Basel Plant Science Centercall_made, the external pageCongo Biogeochemistry Observatorycall_made and external pageOpen Innovation in Life Sciencescall_made.

Our research enables us to collaborate frequently with Research and NGO groups such as: external pageMax-Planck Institute for Biogeochemistrycall_made, external pageKyaninga Forest Foudnationcall_made (KFF), external pageWorld Agroforestry Centre Nairobicall_made (ICRAF) , external pageInternational Institude of Tropical Agriculturecall_made Kalambo / Bukavu (IITA), external pageNorwegian University of Science and Technologycall_made (NTNU), external pageSwiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Researchcall_made (WSL) and external pageAgroscopecall_made.