Curriculum vitae Robert Jandl
Academic Degrees: Diplom-Ingenieur, Doctor rerum naturalium technicarum
born May 28, 1961 in Vienna;
Family: married to Gertrude Jandl since 1985;
2 children: Nathalia(* 10/18/82), Johanna (* 11/15/86)
Education:
- High School at Kollegium Kalksburg in Vienna (1971-1979); Matura 1979
- Civil Service in 1981
- University Education:
- Landscape Ecology and Landscape Architecture at
BOKU, 1982-1987; Diploma Thesis 'Pedogenesis of
selected soils in high altitudes in the Central
Alps', advised by Univ.-Professor W.E.H. Blum;
Institute of Soil Science
- Forestry at BOKU, 1985-1989; Diploma Thesis 'Growth
evaluation in young Norway spruce stands', advised by
Univ.-Professor H. Sterba; Institute of Forest Yield
Research
- Dissertation at BOKU, 1989-1992;
Thesis 'Biogeochemical processes
at forest sites with wild garlic (Allium
ursinum L.) in the Vienna Woods', advisor:
Univ.-Professor G. Glatzel, Institute of Forest
Ecology
Professional Career:
- Research Assistent at the Institute of Soil Science
and Technical Geology, BOKU, 1982-1984 (Laboratory work
dealing with the swelling pressure of clay minerals
and chemical soil analyses for the field trip of the
International Soil Science Society)
- Research Assistant at the Institute of Forest
Ecology, BOKU, as a graduate student
- Consulting work for the Austrian Environmental
Protection Agency (UBA) in 1992; project 'Integrated
Monitoring'
- Austrian Forest Research Center, Institute of
Forest Ecology, since 1992
- Research Assistant at Forestry Department
(Dr. Phil Sollins) at Oregon State University,
Corvallis, OR 1993/94 as a Schroedinger grantee of
the Austrian Science Foundation
- University Lecturer at the Institute of Soil Science
in Vienna since 1995; Class 'Chemistry of Soil Water'
- Assistant to the IUFRO Secretary 1999-2001
- Fulbright Scholar, Guest Lecturer at Colorado State
University in Ft Collins, Natural Resources Lab in
spring 2000
- Deputy Coordinator of IUFRO Working Group 8.02
(Site), since August 2000
- Deputy Coordinator of IUFRO Task Force 'Carbon
Sequestration', since June 2001
- Lecturer in Erasmus Program 'Chemistry of the
Rhizosphere' in Vienna and Prague, in May 2001
Experience at foreign institutions:
- Visiting Scientist at the University of Washington,
Seattle (UoW) with Dr. Dale Cole and Dr. Fio Ugolini within a
cooperation agreement between BOKU and UoW
- Research Assistent at Oregon State University
with Dr. Phil Sollins; funded by a stipend of the Austrian
Science Foundation (FWF, Schroedinger Stipend)
- Fulbright Scholar at Colorado State University in
March and April 2000
Participation at International Congresses:
- International Fertilizer Congress, Nicosia, Cyprus (poster)
- International Conference on Acidic Deposition - its nature and impacts, Glasgow, UK (oral presentation)
- Conference of the American Chemical Society (ACS) Atlanta, GA (oral presentation)
- Integrated Monitoring Workshop, Aberdeen, UK (oral presentation)
- International Soil Science Society Conference, Acapulco, Mexico (poster)
- International Humic Substances Society Conference, Wroclaw, Polen (poster)
- American Soil Science Society, Anaheim, CA (poster)
- American Soil Science Society, Baltimore, MD (poster)
- Annual Meeting of the project partners ''Recognition''
in Freiburg, Germany (oral presentation)
- Annual Meeting of the project partners ''Recognition''
in Munich, Germany (oral presentation)
- IUFRO World Congress Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (oral presentation)
- American Soil Science Society, Minneapolis, Minnesota
(oral presentation)
- Annual Meeting of the project partners ''Recognition''
in Simlångsdalen, Sweden (oral presentation)
- Taller Internacional sobre secuestro de carbono,
Mérida, Venezuela (oral presentation)
- Tagung der Deutschen und Österreichischen
Bodenkundlichen Gesellschaft, Wien (poster)
- Simposio Medición y Monitoreo de la Captura de
Carbono en Ecosistemas forestales, Valdivia, Chile (oral
presentation)
- American Soil Science Society, Charlotte, North Carolina
(oral presentation, poster)
Current work topics:
- Changes of soil chemical properties due to atmospheric deposition; Methods of
soil amelioration
- Changes in tree nutrition due to changes in forest management practices;
within this topic I am involved in the EU project Recognition;
- Establishing nutrient budgets of forest ecosystems by means of simulation models, based on soil chemical and
soil physical site properties; Calculation of a nitrogen budget for
Achenkirch (Project G8 of FBVA)
- Interface of soil microbiology and chemistry of the rhizosphere
- Carbon dynamics of forest ecosystems
- Identification of site degradations by means of soil chemical properties;
Project is jointly pursued with Dr. Riedler (sYs-an)
- Chemical rock weathering in forest soils (project with Dr Ottner; Institute of Geology, BOKU)
- Co-Editor of the journal 'European Journal of Humic Substances' since
1999
- Reviewer for various journals (Water, Air, and Soil Pollution; Journal of Environmental Quality)
- Work on my habilitation thesis 'Chemistry of soil water in forests' (pre-
liminary title); to be finished in winter 2001
- Adviser to students: Edith Haslinger - graduated in fall 2000; Timotej Misic - to graduate in 2002; Hannes Spögler - to graduate in 2002
- Contributions to the IUFRO Task Force GFIS (Global Forest Information Service)
Didactic experience:
- Lecture 'Introduction to soil water chemistry' since winter
semester 1995 at BOKU; 2 hours weekly lecture, 1 hour application
- Guest Lecturer in 'Introduction to soil biology', taught by Doz
Dr Sophie Zechmeister-Boltenstern at Institute of Plant Physiology at
University of Vienna
- Guest Lecturer at Natural Resources Lab, Colorado State
University, Ft Collins, in spring 2000
- Guest Lecturer at Universidad de Austral, Valdivia Chile in
fall 2001
- Co-Advisor of students: Edith Haslinger (graduated in fall
2000), Timotej Misic (will graduate in 2001), Hannes
Spögler (will graduate in 2002)
Languages skills:
Fluent in English, both in writing and speaking; sobrevivo en
español.
Organisation of Conferences:
- Member of the technical comitee of the conference 'Magnesiummangel in
mitteleuropäischen Waldökosystemen' (organized by Univ.-Professor
Glatzel; Salzburg 1991)
- Member of the technical comitee of the conference 'Soil
Behaviour in Space and Time' (organized by Univ.-Professor W.E.H.
Blum; Wien 1997)
- Member of the technical comitee of the Icobte (5 th International Conference on the Biogeochemistry of Trace
Elements), organized by BOKU and the American Soil Science Society.
- Special Issue of Ecological Engineering, edited by Drs. W
Kilian and J Fanta, covering the
results of a workshop 'Site' of the XX IUFRO World Congress in
Tampere, Finland
- management of database and preparation of proceedings for the
XXI IUFRO World Congress, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Organization of the ''Taller Internacional sobre secuestro de carbono'' in
Mérida, Venezuela, as joint meeting of IUFRO WP 8.01 and 8.02
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