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Katerina Georgiou [CV] [Google Scholar] Katerina is an 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.] |
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Zhen Li, Postdoctoral Researcher Zhen is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Lawrence Livermore National Lab modeling how plant traits affect soil carbon cycling, using the process-rich ecosystem model 'ecosys'. She has also applied ecosys to Arctic wetlands and permafrost soils. She received a Ph.D. 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. |
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Hannah Lieberman, Postdoctoral Researcher Hannah is a Postdoctoral Scholar at Oregon State University investigating mechanistic controls on soil carbon accumulation, particularly carbon saturation. She received her Ph.D. in Natural Resource Sciences from McGill University investigating the effects of intermittent flooding on soil carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus cycling and persistence, and a B.A. in Biology from Grinnell College. |
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Lilly Schellinger, Undergraduate Researcher Lilly is an undergraduate student in Ecological Engineering at Oregon State University. They are researching how thermally altered organic carbon can be used as an input in agricultural systems to regulate soil carbon cycling. |
Alumni (former postdocs and graduate students)
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Anthony Stewart, now an Atkinson Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell University
Anthony was a DOE SCGSR Fellow & Visiting Ph.D. Student in 2024 studying the mechanisms driving soil organic carbon persistence across a wetland to upland gradient. He received a Ph.D. in 2025 from the University of Washington, co-advised by Monika Moskal and David Butman. Anthony received a M.S. in Natural Resources from University of New Hampshire, and a B.S. in Environmental Science from Montana State University. |
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Leo Rossdeutscher, now a Ph.D. candidate at the Max Planck Institute
Leo was a visiting Ph.D. student in 2024 from the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry (advisor: Bernhard Ahrens) studying deep learning approaches for 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. |