Ingrid Kögel-Knabner

Ingrid Kögel-Knabner (born December 3, 1958 in Bayreuth ) is a German soil scientist and currently professor of soil science at the Technical University of Munich . Your work deals with the storage of CO ₂ in the soil .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1978, Kögel-Knabner began studying geoecology in Bayreuth, which she completed with a diploma as the first graduate of this course worldwide. She then worked on organic matter in forest humus forms with Wolfgang Zech (* 1937) and received her doctorate in Bayreuth in 1987. There she completed her habilitation in 1992 on the composition and formation of soil organic matter. In the same year she became a professor at the Ruhr University in Bochum . In 1995 she followed Udo Schwertmann to the chair for soil science at the Technical University of Munich , which she still holds today. From 2009 to 2015 she was a member of the Senate and Main Committee of the German Research Foundation (DFG), since 2012 she has been a member of the Bioeconomy Council, an independent advisory body to the Federal Government, in addition to other supervisory and management activities for the TU Munich, DFG, and Helmholtz Association. She is married to the mathematician Peter Knabner .

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Ingrid Kögel-Knabner is the author of over 250 peer-reviewed publications in soil science and is Thomson Reuters highly cited researcher 2015 and 2016. She is co-author of several editions of the German standard textbook Textbook of Soil Science by Fritz Scheffer and Paul Schachtschabel and is the main editor of Geoderma, besides membership in the editorial board of a number of other international journals. Your work has laid the foundation for a better understanding of the dynamics and stabilization of soil organic matter. Deviating from previous ideas, it showed the stabilization of polysaccharides and proteins in particular, important easily degradable components of plant remains. Her current work on organo-mineral compounds, which particularly emphasize the importance of nanoscale iron oxides for stabilization, is groundbreaking for an understanding at the molecular level of the formation of organo-mineral complexes in soils. It paved the way for a transdisciplinary orientation in soil science.

When Kögel-Knabner was awarded the Environmental Prize of the Federal Environment Foundation in 2019, her work was recognized with the following words: “Your excellent research highlights the immense importance of the soil as a water and nutrient store, life donor, pollutant filter and guarantor of world food. A milestone are new findings on carbon fixation in the soil, which influences the global climate system. "

Awards and memberships

• 2001: Member of the German Academy for Natural Scientists Leopoldina
• 2007: Member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering
• 2008: Member of the Commission for Ecology of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
• 2011: Carl von Linde Fellow at the TUM Institute for Advanced Study
• 2013: Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
• 2015: Honorary doctorate from the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna
• 2015: Philippe-Duchaufour-Medal European Geosciences Union
• 2015: Emil Ramann Medal of the German Soil Science Society
• 2016: Heinz Maier Leibnitz Medal from the Technical University of Munich
• 2017: Member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
• 2018: Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art
• 2019: Environment Prize of the Federal Environment Foundation

Web links

• Biography on the website of the Technical University of Munich , accessed on March 10, 2013.
• Detailed curriculum vitae (PDF; 52 kB), accessed on July 9, 2018.
• Ingrid Kögel-Knabner in the AcademiaNet database of renowned scientists

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Home. In: biooekonomierat.de. Retrieved September 30, 2016 . 
2. ↑ DFG Senate Commission for Agro-Ecosystem Research. Retrieved September 30, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Helmholtz Association Advisory Board: Member 2008-2013. Retrieved September 30, 2016 . 
4. ↑ Thomson Reuters highly cited scientists. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 5, 2016 ; accessed on September 30, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ^ Geoderma The Global Journal of Soil Science. Retrieved September 30, 2016 . 
6. ↑ Laudation Duchaufour Medal. Retrieved September 30, 2016 . 
7. ↑ German Environmental Prize 2019: Individual award for soil researcher Prof. Dr. Ingrid Kögel-Knabner. Retrieved October 27, 2019 . 
8. ↑ IAS of TUM ( Memento of the original dated February 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
9. ↑ Boku. Retrieved October 9, 2016 . 
10. ^ Philippe Duchaufour Medal 2015. Accessed September 30, 2016 . 
11. ^ From Arabic studies to neurology: Bavarian Academy of Sciences elects 20 new members. Bavarian Academy of Sciences , March 22, 2017, accessed on April 11, 2017 .