Prof. Dr. Andreas Bürkert
Head of Section
- Telefon
- +49 5542 98-1228
- buerkert[at]uni-kassel[dot]de
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- Steinstraße 19
37213 Witzenhausen
Curriculum Vitae
Andreas Bürkert is head of the Section of Organic Plant Production and Agroecosystems Research in the Tropics and Subtropics at the University of Kassel. His research focuses on carbon and plant nutrient cycling in agroecosystems to analyse management effects on system sustainability, the role of organic amendments and mineral fertilisers on plant nutrient availability and product quality, and on nutrient acquisition by plants in marginal and intensive environments. He also uses non-destructive methods such as GIS-based aerial photography for the quantification of plant growth in crop-livestock systems.
Date of birth 29 August 1961, Schwäbisch Hall, Germany
Nationality German
Position Full professor (chair) Organic Plant Production and
Agroecosystems Research in the Tropics and Subtropics
Address Faculty of Organic Agricultural Sciences
University of Kassel
Steinstraße 19, 37213 Witzenhausen
+49 5542-98-1228 (Office)
+49 5542-98-1230 (Fax.)
buerkert[at]uni-kassel[dot]de
Academic education
Universities: U. Hohenheim, Germany & U. California Davis
Degrees: 2001 Habilitation and Venia Legendi in Plant Nutrition
and Plant Production in the Tropics and Subtropics,
U. Hohenheim
1995 U. Hohenheim, Germany
Dr. sc. agr. in Agricultural Sciences
1989 MSc. International Agricultural Development,
U. California Davis, USA
Professional career
since 2004 Professor (C4) of Organic Plant Production and Agroeco-
systems Research in the Tropics and Subtropics,
University of Kassel, Germany
2008 – 2011 Vice-Dean of the College of Organic Agriculture
at University of Kassel
2002 – 2004 Guest lectureships at Kabul University, Afghanistan,
Yezin Agricultural University at Pyianmana, Myanmar
and at China Agricultural University (CAU), Beijing, China
1999 – 2002 Temporary professorship of Tropical Crops,
University of Kassel, Germany
1995 – 1999 Post-doctoral scientist in the DFG-funded research project
'Effects of site-factors on the efficiency of organic and
inorganic soil amendments and nutrient fluxes in
agricultural systems in the West African Sahel', ICRISAT
Sahelian Centre, Niger and University of Hohenheim,
Germany.
Scientific activities
2008 – 2011 Evaluation Board DFG ‘Agriculture, Forestry, Vegetable
Production and Veterinary Medicine’
2001 – 2008 DAAD Reviewer panel: ’Graduierte nach Übersee’
since 2005 Chairman of the scientific advisory board of DITSL GmbH
since 2001 Regular reviewer of the Journals ‘Field Crops Research’,
‘Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science’ and ‘Journal of
Arid Environments’
Expertise
Sustainability, soil fertility, nutrient management and matter fluxes in drylands of Africa since 1991, the Middle East since 1998 and Central Asia since 2000. Analysis of the effects of landuse systems, management practices and climate change on carbon and plant nutrient cycles in marginal (agro-pastoral) and intensive (urban and peri-urban) agro-ecosystems. Quantification of the effects of organic amendments on plant nutrient availability and product quality and to study nutrient acquisition by plants in crop-livestock systems.