Ingrid Kögel-Knabner
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Ingrid Kögel-Knabner (born 1958) is a German soil scientist whose research focuses on soil organic matter, the carbon cycle in soil, and soil-based carbon sequestration.[1] She is a professor at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), chair of soil science, dean of the TUM School of Life Sciences,[2] and a Carl von Linde Senior Fellow in the TUM Institute for Advanced Study.[3]
Kögel-Knabner was born in Bayreuth in 1958. After studying at the Richard-Wagner-Gymnasium Bayreuth, she became a student of geoecology at the University of Bayreuth in 1978, soon after its founding in 1975. She earned a diploma there in 1983, and received her doctorate there in 1987 under the supervision of Wolfgang Zech. She completed a habilitation in 1992 with the habilitation thesis Forest soil organic matter: structure and formation.[4]
After working as an assistant in Zech's chair for soil science at Bayreuth until 1992, she obtained a permanent position as Universitätsprofessor for soil science and soil ecology at Ruhr University Bochum in 1992. She was offered a professorship at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in 1994, but turned down the offer, instead moving in 1995 to her present position at the Technical University of Munich.[4]
