Simon Baumgartner

Université catholique de Louvain

Earth and Life Institute
3, Place Louis Pasteur
B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
www.uclouvain.be

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Research Interests

I did my PhD in the FNRS-project Forsedco at the Université catholique de Louvain in Belgium. The title of my work is "The significance of particulate nitrogen erosion for N availability in tropical forests in the Congo Basin". The objectives of my research was to quantify particulate nutrient export in first-order streams in different forests of the Congo Basin in the DRC and to assess different factors controlling these particulate nutrient losses and its significance to the nutrient availability of tropical forests.

For the duration of my PhD I was employed at UCL under the supervision of Prof. Kristof Van Oost but also worked at ETH Zürich in the Group of Prof. Johan Six.

Working Experience

2018-2022 PhD candidate at the Georges Lemaitre Centre for Earth and Climate Research (TECLIM), UC Louvain

2017-2018 scientific assistant research group "Sustainable Agroecosystems", ETH Zürich

2015-2016 scientific assistant research group "Rhizosphere Processes", WSL Birmensdorf

Education

2017 M.Sc. Environmental Sciences, Major in Biogeochemistry and Pollutant Dynamics, ETH Zürich
2015 B.Sc. Environmental Sciences, ETH Zürich

Selected Publications

Hysteresis effects in organic matter turnover in a tropical floodplain during a flood cycle
Zuijdgeest, A., Baumgartner S., Wehrli B.
Biogeochemistry (2016)