Daniela Guasconi Postdoctoral researcher
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Name and title: Daniela GuasconiPostdoctoral researcher
ORCID0000-0003-3739-0877 Länk till annan webbplats.
Workplace: Department of Physical Geography Länk till annan webbplats.
Visiting address Room V 415Svante Arrhenius väg 8
Postal address Inst för naturgeografi 106 91 Stockholm
About me
Postdoc at the department of Physical Geography, member of the Bolin Centre for climate research, research theme 2 (Water, biogeochemistry and climate) and 4 (Climate, ecosystems and biodiversity).
I am a biologist turned soil ecologist. I defended my PhD in Physical Geography in 2024 under the supervision of Gustaf Hugelius, with co-supervision from Stefano Manzoni, Sara Cousins and Petra Fransson (SLU). I'm interested in microbial ecosystem functions, biogeochemical cycles and plant-soil interactions, and how all these relate to climate and land-use change.
During my PhD I set up and managed a long-term drought and soil carbon management experiment in Sörmland, and studied changes in soil properties, roots and soil microbial communities. Since April 2024 I am a postdoc in Stefano Manzoni's lab and I am involved in the HoliSoils project in close collaboration with Marleen Pallandt. In this project we aim to disentangle the interacting effects of climate, forest management and microbial diversity and community composition on soil C turnover. In particular, I investigate how fungal and bacterial communities control decomposition rates, measured from soil CO2 fluxes.
Currently also interested in temperature responses of microbial growth and respiration.
From June 2026 I will start a new employment based at the department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences (DEEP) at Stockholm University and at the department of Biology at Aarhus University (DK).
I have held seminars for the biogeography module of the biogeosciences bachelor program and for the landscape ecology master program, where I have supervised individual student projects.
I have also been teaching about soil and land use for the Natural resources and sustainable development course (sustainable development program).
I have been involved as a teacher in the Tellus I (Physical Geography) and Tellus II (soil module) courses for several years.
My research focuses on soil ecology and biogeochemical cycles, and how these are influenced by climate and land-use change. Being a field scientist by training I am passionate about collecting data, and I have spent many hours digging in the dirt and pipetting in the lab.
In my current project I try to disentangle the biotic and abiotic drivers of decomposition in forest soils by looking at the effects of soil moisture and temperature and of microbial diversity and community composition on soil CO2 fluxes under different managements.
I enjoy working with modellers and the challenge of finding the most informative empirical data that might be used to improve model parametrizations, particularly related to C cycling.