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Dr. Sophia Leimer

  • Research, Teaching
  • Group: Soil
  • Room: 106 in Geb. 10.50
  • Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
    Institut für Geographie und Geoökologie
    Reinhard-Baumeister-Platz 1
    76131 Karlsruhe
    Germany

Sophia Leimer

Soil, ecohydrology, biodiversity, nutrient cycles, and modeling.

Topics

  • Environmental change effects on water and element fluxes
  • Hierarchical Bayesian modeling
  • Hydrological modeling
  • Time series analysis

CV

2014-2020 Postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Geography and Geoecology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
2013-2014 Postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Geography, University of Bern
2010-2013 PhD student at the Institute of Geography, University of Bern. Title of the dissertation: „Plant diversity effects on water fluxes and N leaching in soil of an experimental grassland: An analysis using a Bayesian modeling approach“
2003-2010 Magister in Geography, Math, and Computer Science at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. Title of the Magister thesis: „Modellierung des Wasserhaushalts eines kleinen weinbaudominierten Einzugsgebiets im Oberen Mittelrheintal (Gailsbach)“

Projects: www.the-jena-experiment.de | www.biodiversity-exploratories.de | www.tropicalmountainforest.org

Publications