FWF "Tausend Ideen" for Hannes Schmidt
Hannes Schmidt, Senior Scientist at TER, received funding from the Austrian Science Fund’s 1000 Ideas program (“Tausend Ideen”). Congratulations, Hannes!
His project ‘SurfinSoil: Surfaces in soil predict bacterial functioning’ aims to assess bacterial population densities within soil pore space by integrating microbial ecology with soil physics. Furthermore, the project will investigate if bacterial functioning can be predicted from spatial microscale parameters.
Hannes did his master’s degree in physical geography with a focus on soil science, followed by a PhD on spatio-temporal dynamics of microbial communities in paddy soils at the University of Bremen (Germany). In 2014, he joined DoME via a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship to work on plant-microbe associations and spatial identification of bacteria. Hannes now works as a Senior Scientist at TER where he continues to investigate spatial aspects of interactions between microbes and their soil environment at the micro- and macroscale.
