Team

• Biogeochemical cycling of trace metals in the soil-plant-water system
• Source, speciation and mobility of heavy metals organic pollutants in soils and sediments
• Non traditional stable isotopes (e.g. Cu, Zn) as tracers for biogeochemical cycling and anthropogenic contamination
• Biogeochemical processes in small inland water bodies on the transition of the aquatic-terrestrial domains

Since 2022: Research assistant at the Department of Soil Mineralogy and Soil Chemistry

2020-2022: JAMSTEC Young Research Fellow at the Biogeochemistry Research Center, Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Japan

2019-2020: Scientist at the Laboratory and Analysis Division, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN), Japan

2017-2019: Alexander von Humboldt-JSPS Postdoctoral Research Fellow at der Laboratory and Analysis Division, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN), Japan

2017: PhD in Agricultural Sciences, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

2015-2016: Guest Researcher at the Carbon and Nutrient Cycling Division, Research Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences (NIAES), Japan

2013-2016: Doctoral researcher at the Leibniz Center for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF)

2010-2012: MSc study of Geosciences at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

2007-2010: BSc study of Geosciences at the University of Bremen

Recent publications:

Nitzsche K.N., Yoshimura T., Ishikawa N.F., Kawahata H., Ogawa N.O., Suzuki K., Araoka, D. and Ohkouchi N. (2024) Zinc isotope fractionation during the sorption of Zn to minerals and organic matter in sediment cores affected by anthropogenic contamination. Applied Geochemistry, 169:106047. DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2024.106047.

Nitzsche K.N., Ishikawa N.F., Yoshimura T., Kajita H., Kawahata H., Ogawa N.O., Suga S. and Ohkouchi N. (2024) Historical trend of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in a sediment core from Osaka Bay during the Meghalayan. The Holocene, 34:1-10. DOI: 10.1177/0959683624123632

Nitzsche K.N., Yoshimura, T., Ishikawa, N.F., Kajita, H., Kawahata, H., Ogawa, N.O., Suzuki, K., Yokoyama, Y. and Ohkouchi, N. (2022) Metal contamination in a sediment core from Osaka Bay during the last 400 years. Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, 9:58. doi: 10.1186/s40645-022-00517-z.

All publications:

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Current courses:

• MA lecture Soil Mineralogy (SoSe)
• MA exercise Soil Pollution, Remediation and Protection (SoSe)
• Co lecturer in the MA lecture Soil Biogeochemistry (WiSe)
• Co lecturer in the MA lecture+exercise Erosion: Processes and Methods (WiSe)
• Co lecturer in the Soil Biogeochemistry lab course (WiSe)