ANDREAS HEINEMEYER
Personal
Details
Date of Birth: 15 November, 1971
Nationality: German
Residency:
Marital status: married (Catherine Heinemeyer) with three children
(Conor Sebastian,
30th August 2004; Patrick Johannes, 2nd February 2007; Finn Emanuel,
4th May 2011)
Qualifications
Ph.D. University of York, Dept. of Biology, UK 1998/99-2002
Diplom Biologe
University
of Göttingen,
Germany 1995-1998 (first)
Vordiplom University of Göttingen, Germany 1992-1995 (first)
A-levels (Biology, Chemistry, German, Art) (first)
Key Expertise
·
Ecologist
with
main
expertise
in
the
role of
soils in the global carbon cycle, plant distribution and ecophysiology;
·
Excellent knowledge of mycorrhizas (i.e. AMs and EMs), their ecological
function and potential role in soil carbon cycling in
relation to environmental factors;
·
Wide knowledge of plant identification and basic knowledge of plant
community
structure and soil science;
·
Good experience in GIS work (e.g. mapping, overlays and query
techniques);
·
Expertise in soil respiration gas chromatography and stable isotope
tracer work
(i.e. mass spectrometry)
· Expertise in modelling
terrestrial carbon dynamics (Century & MILLENNIA peatland model)
Professional Experience
2011 - 2016 PI on a Defra upland peatland project 'Restoration
of blanket bog vegetation for biodiversity, carbon sequestration and
water regulation',
Senior Researcher at the Stockholm
Environment Institute/Environment Department at York, University of
York.
2007 - 2011 Post-doctoral
research associate Centre for Terrestrial
Carbon Dynamics (CTCD) within the National Centre for Earth
Observation
(NCEO),
Environment Department (since
August
2010)/Stockholm Environment Institute at
2002
- 2007 Post-doctoral research associate Centre for Terrestrial
Carbon
Dynamics (CTCD),
Department of Biology/Stockholm
Environment Institute at
2000 - 2001 Research associate, Department of Biology,
2000 - 2003 Course organiser and
session
leader of the York "Techniques in Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Research"
one-week short course (March),
Department of
Biology/Belowground Research Unit, University of York.
1992 - 1998 Biology degree (botany, biochemistry and
soil
science) at the University of Göttingen, Germany (first)
Thesis on
climatologically
plant distribution boundaries (supervisor: Helge
Bruelheide)
Research Interests
Global change ecology:
understanding the role of vegetation and soils to function as future
carbon
sink or sources under climate change scenarios (CTCD); importance of
root
associated
symbionts in terrestrial carbon cycling and their community
composition (PhD).
Terrestrial carbon cycle: investigating the contribution of key components of the soil respiration flux (e.g. mycorrhizas) and their link to canopy processes ('Overflow-tap') and responses to environmental change; use of the stable isotope 13C as a carbon tracer in ecosystem research and state-of-the-art soil respiration (Li-Cor 8100) and stable isotope (mobile gas chromatograph isotope ratio mass spectrometry unit) equipment.
Closed system science: making linkages between analogue and digital models of the earth carbon cycle system (SCALE-Ecotron) and to identify the underlying key process rules and incorporate those into available soil carbon models.
Methods and Model
improvements:
improving
existing soil gas flux methodology (i.e. GasSnake) and soil C dynamics
in SOM models (e.g. Century) and creating
improved
peatland C models (i.e. MILLENNIA).
Publications
Over 45 peer-reviewed publications in international journals (current
H-index
17).
Countries of International Experience
United Kingdom, Germany (native)
Funding
UKPopNet (NERC) grant 'Uplands Breathing in and
out' (£40k)
Carbon Crucible 2 x research project (£20k) 2009-2011
Defra project
'Restoration of blanket bog vegetation for biodiversity, carbon
sequestration and water regulation' (£950k)
Scholarships
Evangelische Studienwerk
e.V., Germany (1 year; PhD funding)
Deutscher Akademischer
Austauschdienst (DAAD), Germany (1
year; PhD funding)
Additional Skills
Computing: Working
knowledge of ArcView GIS, SAS statistical
package, SPSS, Coral Draw,
Microsoft Windows (Word, Excel, Power Point, Reference Manager etc.),
some C++
Languages: German
(mother
tongue), English (Fluent), French (Basic knowledge)
Driving License: Full and clean driving license
Presentational: Exceptional presentation skills,
including
radio broadcasts (BBC4) and DVD contribution (Royal Society 2006)
Educational: Numerous school and adult
level
teaching courses, talks; organizer of several international workshops
(e.g.
CTCD and ESF summer schools)
Languages and others:
German (mother tongue), English (fluent), French (basic
knowledge),
Italian & Spanish (absolute beginner)
Driving Licence: Full and clean EU driving
licence (but still prefer my bike and do
not own a car!)
Special activities/outreach
activities:
• Disney M, Heinemeyer A
&
Quegan S. Forests, Carbon and Climate (2007). In: Catalyst
a GCSE
level
science magazine (eds. N Collins, D
Moore, D Sang
& J Taylor)
• Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2006: “The
Breathing
Forest”
• Planet Earth, NERC magazine (Winter 2005/06; p.11):
“Carbon
Chasers”
• Remote Sensing and LULUCF carbon inventories in
the UK
(2003); G. Patenaude (with appendices from
staff of
the Centre for Terrestrial Carbon
Dynamics); University of Oxford,
University of
Sheffield etc.
• Estimating Biogenic Carbon Fluxes from Flux
tower
measurements and Earth Observation data (2005); John Grace
(on behalf
of: The Centre for
Terrestrial Carbon Dynamics: Universities of
Sheffield, Edinburgh, York, University College London, and Forest
Research at
Alice Holt)
Scientific involvements:
Regular MS reviewing of papers submitted to journals including:
(i) Proc.
R.
Soc.
B
(ii) New Phytologist
(iii) Plant and Soil
(iv) FEMS Microbiology Ecology
(v) BioScience
(vi) Tree Physiology
(vii) Journal of Ecology
(viii) Global Change Biology
(ix) Oecologia
(x) Tellus B
(xi) Ecology
(xii)
Climate Research
(xiii)
Trends in Ecology & Evolution
(xiv)
Soil Use & Management
(xv)
Journal of Environmental Quality
(xvi) Biogeosciences
(xvii) European
Journal of Soil Science
(xviii) Biogeosciences
(xix) Trends in Ecology and Evolution
(xx) Journal of Environmental Quality
(xxi) Geoderma
(xxii) Soil Biology and Biochemistry
(xxiii) Nature Communications
(xxiv) Agriculture,
Ecosystems & Environment
Review of NERC and BBSRC grants (UK), EU scientific grant
proposals and the Kearney Foundation
(USA).
PhD (viva) external examiner (EU:
Amsterdam; UK: Reading, Bangor).