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Andreas Heinemeyer
Senior Researcher and Research Group Leader

Biography

Andreas has over 20 years' experience in the field of terrestrial carbon cycling focusing on impacts of management and climate change on soils in forests, agriculture and peatlands, and the related functioning of terrestrial ecosystems and ecosystem services provisioning. He developed the MILLENNIA peatland model and uses other carbon models such as RothC, Century and DNDC. Andreas combines expertise across modelling to measurements of carbon stocks and fluxes, including greenhouse gas emissions. 

He joined SEI York in 2002 as a postdoctoral researcher within the Centre for Terrestrial Carbon Dynamics (CTCD). In 2008 he joined the National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO), a follow-up of the CTCD. Andreas became Research Group Leader in October 2014 and has been leading a long-term peatland project (initially DEFRA-funded, BD5104) on peatland vegetation management and ecosystem services in the UK.

At the international level, he was involved in organising soil science/methodological courses and advising the UNFCCC in relation to defining peatlands as carbon stores within UN agreements. At the national level, he was involved in many groups related to peatland functioning and management, for example, the Upland Hydrology group and the Upland Management group. In his current work he frequently interacts with all major upland land management groups, government agencies (e.g. Natural England) and departments (e.g. DEFRA).

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Publications:

View his publications available on the SEI website

A more extensive list of publications is available here

Career

Andreas holds a PhD in Biology on carbon dynamics in the mycorrhizal symbioses from the University of York and worked as a part-time lecturer at the Centre for Life Long Learning at the University of York. He is a frequent speaker at conferences and outreach events and contributes to films on UK upland management aspects. Andreas now leads the Peatland Research Group (PeatTeam).

  • 1998 MSc (Biology, University of Göttingen)
  • 2002 PhD (Biology/Mycorrhizal carbon allocation, University of York)
  • 2002-2008: PDRA at Centre of Terrestrial Carbon Dynamics (CTCD), York
  • 2008-2011: PDRA at the National Centre of Earth Observation (NCEO), York
  • 2011-2012: PI on UKPopNet project on peatland carbon cycling
  • 2012-2014: Senior Researcher at the SEI 
  • 2014 to present: Associate Professor/Research Group Leader in Plant-Soil Science and Ecosystem Services.

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Andreas Heinemeyer

Tel: 07552 285902

@AndreasHeinem