
Dr Fotis Sgouridis
PhD(Lond.), MSc(Lond.), BSc(Thess.)
Expertise
Current positions
Technical Expert
School of Geographical Sciences
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Research interests
My role as the Laboratory Manager is to oversee operations in the School of Geographical Sciences laboratory platform (BIOGAS, LOWTEX, AQUALAB, MICROLAB), manage the laboratory budget and technical staff and support and contribute to research and teaching activities in the laboratory.
In terms of research I am broadly interested in the biogeochemistry of nitrogen (N) and carbon (C) across a range of terrestrial and aquatic environments. My doctoral and postdoctoral research in soil biogeochemistry focuses on the effect of land use management and landscape position on nitrogen and carbon cycling and greenhouse gas emissions in terrestrial ecosystems. My research to date has aimed on the one hand to advance mechanistic understanding of key biogeochemical processes and on the other to produce results that can be translated into environmental policy and is of direct relevance to climate change science.
My vision is to continue my research in investigating the soil-plant-atmosphere interactions in a changing climate and land use context using novel experimental paradigms (e.g. laboratory and field manipulations) and cutting-edge analytical approaches (e.g. C and N stable isotopes). I am also interested in elucidating the role and relative importance of alternative nitrogen transformation processes such as Dissimilatory Nitrate Reduction to Ammonium (DNRA) and Anaerobic Ammonium Oxidation (Anammox) in terrestrial environments.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Untold Stories: Challenging research behaviours for studying the past
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
Untold Stories challenges current research prejudices regarding how certain groups of individuals in the past remain underrepresented in historical and social research. The project aims to tell their stories using…Managing organisational unit
Department of Anthropology and ArchaeologyDates
21/03/2022 to 31/07/2022
Publications
Recent publications
10/01/2022Restoration impacts on rates of denitrification and greenhouse gas fluxes from tropical coastal wetlands
Science of The Total Environment
Chronic atmospheric reactive N deposition has breached the N sink capacity of a northern ombrotrophic peatbog increasing the gaseous and fluvial N losses
Science of The Total Environment
Chronic Atmospheric Reactive Nitrogen Deposition Suppresses Biological Nitrogen Fixation in Peatlands
Environmental Science and Technology
Microbial characterisation and Cold-Adapted Predicted Protein (CAPP) database construction from the active layer of Greenland’s permafrost
FEMS Microbiology Ecology
Corrigendum to “Biological nitrogen fixation in peatlands
Soil Biology and Biochemistry