Juan Jiménez has now started on his 2-year Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoc
Juan Jiménez won a prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoc from the EU to work with me here in Copenhagen for the next two years. Juan will continue working with root traits of rice but this time with emphasis on their role in greenhouse gas emissions from paddy fields.
Methane and nitrous oxide can be produced in large amounts in flooded anoxic soils in paddy fields. There are various actions that farmers can take to reduce emission of greenhouse gases by managing their fields in different ways. However, Juan is interested in how key root traits of rice facilitate – or restrict – intrusion of greenhouse gases from the anoxic soil and into the root tissue, and the further longitudinal transport to the shoot where the gases eventually vent into the atmosphere. Clearly, the evaluators of the proposal also loved his ideas.
Juan’s grant covers his salary for two years with some operational funds as well. We have already started the process of designing custom chambers enabling microsensor work in manipulative experiments, and we have also purchased a new Shimadzu GC sponsored by our department to target trace amounts of CO2, N2O and CH4.
Watch out for output from Juan!
Methane and nitrous oxide can be produced in large amounts in flooded anoxic soils in paddy fields. There are various actions that farmers can take to reduce emission of greenhouse gases by managing their fields in different ways. However, Juan is interested in how key root traits of rice facilitate – or restrict – intrusion of greenhouse gases from the anoxic soil and into the root tissue, and the further longitudinal transport to the shoot where the gases eventually vent into the atmosphere. Clearly, the evaluators of the proposal also loved his ideas.
Juan’s grant covers his salary for two years with some operational funds as well. We have already started the process of designing custom chambers enabling microsensor work in manipulative experiments, and we have also purchased a new Shimadzu GC sponsored by our department to target trace amounts of CO2, N2O and CH4.
Watch out for output from Juan!