Kathrin Rousk
Lektor
Terrestrial Ecology
Universitetsparken 15
2100 København Ø
ORCID 0000-0003-3140-9864
DATE OF BIRTH July 01, 1983, Germany
CONTACT +46 70 5290367; kathrin.rousk@bio.ku.dk
EDUCATION
2013 (April 1st) PhD in Forest Ecology, Bangor University, UK
2009 (April 1st) Master of Science, Ecology, Univesrity of Marburg, Germany
RESEARCH FIELDS
Ecology, nitrogen fixation, cyanobacteria, mosses, symbioses, biogeochemistry, Ecosystem Ecology
POSITIONS
2023 – Associate Professor
Terrestrial Ecology Section, Dept. of Biology, Univ. of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark (UCPH)
2019 – 2022 Tenure-Track Assistant Professor
Terrestrial Ecology Section, Dept. of Biology, Univ. of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark (UCPH)
2016 – 2019 Assistant Professor
Terrestrial Ecology Section, Dept. of Biology, UCPH
02.2016 – 08.2016 Postdoctoral researcher
Center for Permafrost (CENPERM), Dept. of Geosciences and Natural Resources, UCPH
01.2014 – 01.2016 Postdoctoral researcher
Terrestrial Ecology Section, Dept. of Biology, UCPH.
06.2013 – 12.2013 Postdoctoral researcher
Microbial Ecology, Dept. of Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
12.2009 – 12.2012 PhD researcher
FUNDING (last 3 years)
2022 Royal Society New Zealand Catalyst Fund “Moss: the secret fertiliser of Aotearoa’s rainforests?”. Co-PI. 2023-2024. 80,000 $.
2022 Danish National Research Foundation, Center of Excellence “Center for Volatile Interactions”. Co-PI. 2023-2029. 60 mDKK.
2020 SCIENCE Faculty support for PhD course “Plant Soil Microbe Interactions”. 70,000 DKK
2020 European Research Council, ERC Starting Grant. 2021-2026. 1.5 Mio €
SUPERVISION AND TEACHING
Formal training: Pedagogic Course for University Teachers (“Universitetspædagogikum”), UCPH, 2015–2016. Supervision of PhD students, UCPH, 2018. Leading Research – A leadership course, UCPH, 2019.
Supervised >10 BSc students, 5 MSc students, 2 PhD students, 3 postdocs since 2018
Current teaching: PhD course Plant Soil Microbe interactions; BSc courses Plant Ecophysiology (course responsible), Basic Ecology; MSc courses Advanced Ecology (course responsible) Terrestrial Ecosystem Processes and Global Change; Climate Change and Biogeochemical Cycles; Climate Change – an Interdisciplinary Challenge. Lund University: PhD course Global Elemental Cycles and Environmental Change.
COMMISSION OF TRUST - ACADEMIC SERVICE
Reviewer for the following (27) academic journals: Applied Soil Ecology, Arctic Antarctic & Alpine Research, Biogeochemistry, Biogeosciences, Canadian Journal of Forest Research, Ecological Indicators, Ecology, Ecology and Evolution, Ecosystems, Ecotoxicology, Environmental Pollution, European Journal of Soil Biology, FEMS, Forest Ecology and Management, Functional Ecology, Geoderma, Global Change Biology, ISME, Journal of Ecology, mBio, New Phytologist, Oecologia, Plant and Soil, PLoS ONE, PNAS, Polar Biology, Science of the Total Environment
Consulting Editor for Plant and Soil (2019 – ).
Editorial Board Member for European Journal of Soil Biology (2021 – ).
Editorial advisory board member for Global Change Biology (2023 – ).
Guest editor for special issue “Microbial nitrogen processes in aquatic and terrestrial environments” in Trends in Microbiology and iScience (2023).
Grant Reviewer: The National Science Foundation (NSF), USA; Geoverbund ABC/J, Germany; Canadian Research Council, Canada; US Army; Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany.
Examination board: PhD theses: D. Warshan. Supervisor: U. Rasmussen, Stockholm University, Sweden, October 2017; W. Sawangproh, Supervisor: N. Cronberg, Lund University, Sweden, May 2019; A. Neubauer, Supervisor: Peter Szövenyi, University of Zürich, Switzerland, June 2023.
Member of the Strategic Research Board, Dept. of Biology, UCPH, 2020 – 2023
Member of the Research Board, Dept. of Biology, UCPH, 2023 –
Member of the Ecology Cluster Steering Committee, Dept. of Biology, UCPH, 2023 –
Appointment committee PhD fellowships Dept. of Biology, UCPH, 2020.
BIBLIOMETRICS (as of May, 2023)
Total publications: 44. First/corresponding author publications: 23
Total citations: 973 (SC), 1288 (GS)
H-index: 19
ID: 93715367
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What drives biological nitrogen fixation in high arctic tundra: Moisture or temperature?
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Potential for nitrogen fixation in fungus-growing termite symbiosis
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The Sensitivity of moss-associated nitrogen fixation towards repeated nitrogen input
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