Professor Dr. Robert Mikutta

Address Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Institut für Agrar- und Ernährungswissenschaften
Professur für Bodenkunde und Bodenschutz
Von-Seckendorff-Platz 3
06120 Halle

Projects

As Applicant
- Current projects
  - Spatial patterns of organic matter formation in subsoil: Formation of mineral-associated organic matter (Research Grants)
  - Minerals and their interactions with dissolved organic matter as regulators of microbial necromass stabilization in soil (Priority Programmes)
  - Relevance of root growth and related soil structure formation for spatiotemporal patterns of chemical and biological properties and emergent system functions (Priority Programmes)
  - Soil structure turnover under various land uses and feedback to soil carbon turnover (Research Grants)
- Completed projects
  - Biogeochemical reactivity of Fe-organic matter coprecipitates (Research Grants)
  - Accumulation, transformation, and stabilization of organic nitrogen along a mineralogical soil gradient (Research Grants)
  - Plant-microbe strategies for utilization of mineral-associated P sources (Priority Programmes)
  - Origin and fate of dissolved organic matter in the subsoil driven by dynamic exchange and remobilization processes (Research Units)
  - The role of clay minerals and metal oxides for organic matter stabilization in highly weathered tropical soils (Research Grants)
  - Aluminum interactions with iron oxides in the absence and presence of silicic acid (Research Grants)
  - Phytolith solubility in paddy soil (Research Grants)
  - Formation and properties of mineral-organic soil interfaces as revealed by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (Research Grants)
  - Natural organic matter control on silicate interactions with iron oxides and silicon phytoavailability (Research Grants)
  - Dichotomy of gluing and cementing agents in soil microaggregation (Research Units)
  - Interactions between manganese oxides and dissolved organic matter in soil (Research Grants)
  - From single fractions to undisturbed soil: Role of soil organic matter in denitrification (Research Units)
As Leader
- Completed projects
  - Photoelektronenspektrometer (XPS) (Major Research Instrumentation)
  - X-ray fluorescence spectrometer (Major Research Instrumentation)
As Participating Person
- Completed projects
  - Phototrophic community succession as driver of mineral weathering and soil formation along chronosequences in maritime Antarctica (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)
  - Global comparison of mineral weathering rates by mycorrhiza (Research Grants)
As Co-Investigator
- Current projects
  - Novel ultra-high resolution mass spectrometric approaches to decipher structural and physico-chemical drivers of soil organic matter stabilization (Priority Programmes)
- Completed projects
  - The leak in the phosphorus cycle - exploring the mechanisms and controls of phosphorus leaching in soils of acquiring and recycling forest ecosystems (Priority Programmes)
  - Mineral surfaces as hotspots for microbes and element cycling in the Biodiversity Exploratories (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)