Katerina Georgiou [CV] [Google Scholar]
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Assistant Professor, Oregon State University (starting 2025)
Staff Scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (current)

Katerina is an incoming Assistant Professor in Biological & Ecological Engineering at Oregon State University. She received a Ph.D. in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering from UC Berkeley and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota. Katerina was a USDA Postdoctoral Fellow in Earth System Science at Stanford University, and later a Lawrence Fellow and Staff Scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Lab. [Read more.]

Zhen Li, Postdoctoral Researcher

​Zhen is a Postdoctoral Fellow modeling how plant traits affect soil carbon stocks, using the process-rich ecosystem model 'ecosys'. This work is funded by the DOE through the 'Terraforming Soils' Energy Earthshot Research Center. In her past work, Zhen has applied ecosys to Arctic wetlands and permafrost soils, and developed a framework to inform microbial traits in ecosys from genomic data. She received a PhD in Civil & Environmental Engineering from Colorado School of Mines, and a B.S. and M.E. in Petroleum & Reservoir Engineering from China University of Petroleum.

Anthony Stewart, DOE SCGSR Fellow & Visiting PhD Student

Anthony is a DOE SCGSR Fellow studying the mechanisms driving soil organic carbon persistence across a wetland to upland gradient. He is finishing his PhD in the Remote Sensing and Geospatial Analysis Laboratory at UW, co-advised by Monika Moskal and David Butman, where he uses field sampling, remote sensing, and machine learning to improve predictions of carbon stocks across forested ecosystems of the Pacific NW. Anthony received a M.S. in Natural Resources from University of New Hampshire and a B.S. in Environmental Science from Montana State University.

Leo Rossdeutscher, Visiting Ph.D. Student

​Leo is a visiting Ph.D. student from the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry (advisor: Bernhard Ahrens) studying deep learning approaches to improving parametric and structural uncertainties in soil carbon models. He is particularly interested in the representation of mineral-organic associations in soil models, and using time series datasets to constrain multiple soil carbon pools and fluxes. Leo received a M.S. in Chemistry from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU) Erlangen and a B.S. in Applied Chemistry from TH Nürnberg.

​Meli, Field Assistant

Meli is always ready for an adventure, especially if it involves a ball or stick to fetch.

​Peppa, Field Assistant

Peppa loves to chase squirrels and rabbits, and the key to her heart is food.