Prof. Dr. Alexandra Kravchenko

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsSoil Sciences
KeywordsSpatial variability, X-ray computed micro-tomography, Soil carbon, Soil pore architecture
Honours and awards

2020:  Don and Betty Kirkham Soil Physics Award, Soil Science Society of America

2017:  Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation Research Award

2014:  Fellow, Soil Science Society of America

2013:  Fellow, American Society of Agronomy

2011:  American Society of Agronomy Distinguished Service Award as a member of ASA Division Alignment Transition Team

Current contact address

CountryUnited States of America
CityEast Lansing
InstitutionMichigan State University
InstituteCrop and Soil Sciences Department

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Michaela DippoldAbteilung Agrarpedologie, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen
Start of initial sponsorship01/09/2017

Programme(s)

2017Humboldt Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Professor Kravchenko is well known internationally for her outstanding research in micro-to-macro-scale biogeochemical processes involved in soil carbon and nitrogen cycling. She has made influential advances in applying geostatistics, multifractal analysis and power analysis in soil and agricultural studies. During her stay in Germany, she will further develop an approach to assess the spatial variability of biotic functions in soils in three dimensions.