Dr. Kathrin Grahmann - Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF)

Dr. Kathrin Grahmann is a Tenure Track Candidate at the Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF). Her research is motivated by the design and understanding of sustainable cropping systems through diversification measures to achieve the bio-economy and sustainable development goals. She graduated as agronomist from the University of Göttingen, and gained international research experience in Brazil, Mexico and Uruguay. In 2016 she finished her doctorate at the University of Kassel about “Nitrogen use efficiency and optimization of nitrogen fertilizer application for stable yields and high quality of cereals grown in conservation agriculture“. In 2020 she joined ZALF as postdoctoral research assistant in the resource-efficient cropping systems group. Since 2021, she was appointed as tenure track candidate for landscape experimentation at ZALF.

Her current research focuses on short- and long-term soil quality and soil nutrient dynamics in heterogeneous agricultural landscapes and she is particularly interested in sampling, measurement and monitoring approaches that combine traditional methods with emerging technologies. In particular, she has sound expertise and is responsible for various long-term and on-farm experiments and soil health assessment. As such she coordinates the patchCROP experiment at ZALF (www.landschaftslabor-patchcrop.de) where promising innovative technologies such as field robotics, proximal and remote sensor technologies combined with artificial intelligence are implemented.