Akshda Mehrotra

Contact / Address


Akshda Mehrotra
PhD Student

Department of Soil Ecology
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Theodor-Lieser-Strasse 4 | D-06120 Halle/Saale
Germany

Email:

akshda.mehrotra@ufz.de

Akshda Mehrota

Research Project

Land use and biodiversity determine the contribution of microbial necromass to soil carbon storage

    

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Research project in cooperation with UFZ (Halle), Martin Luther University  (Halle)  and Max Planck Institute, Biogeochemistry (Jena)

CV / Scientific Career

Since December 2023

Doctoral researcher at Soil Ecology department, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ

2020 - 2023

May 2022- December 2022

Master of Science: Environmental Science University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Master's thesis on assessing effects of field-scale soil heterogeneity on pesticide biodegradation potential , AME, UFZ Leipzig

2013 - 2017

January 2017 - May 2017

Bachelor of Technology: Chemical Engineering ,Nirma University, Ahmedabad, India

Industrial thesis on optimizing steam consumption by mass & energy balance of double contact and double absorption of sulfuric acid manufacturing unit


Conference Contributions

Posters

Mehrotra A., Jose J., Kaiser K., Glaser B., Goldmann K., Salcedo L., Bi Q., Schrumpf M. (2024): Land use and biodiversity determine the contribution of microbial necromass to soil carbon storage, 21st Plenary Assembly Biodiversity explortatories, Wernigerode (Germany)