Date of Birth:              30/03/1978

Nationality:                 Argentina / USA

I do research on soil and plant biogeochemical relations in response to driving factors, the use of process oriented models to explain changes in soil carbon and nitrogen relations, and the adaptation of ecosystems to changes in the environment.

Research during my PhD thesis focused on the flux of carbon dioxide from soil surfaces in natural ecosystems and the environmental factors which control it. This flux, known as 'soil respiration', is one of the main natural sources of carbon dioxide, with important implications for climate and ecosystem processes. I explored relations of factors such as gross primary productivity, temperature and soil moisture, with the respiration of roots, mycorrhiza, and soil microbes.

I am now working with soil incubation data to find more general temperature-moisture  and carbon relations across soil types and exploring ways of improving model performance for soil carbon stock predictions.

PhD thesis. 2004-2007. Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany

University.  1996-2002. Masters in Biology. National University of Córdoba, Argentina

Secondary school. 1987-1995. Dante Alighieri, Córdoba, Argentina

Primary school. 1982-1986. Salem, Ohio, USA

Since February 2010. Postdoctoral Researcher. CNRS – BIOEMCO. Campus AgroParisTech, Grignon, France. Soil processes: measurements, modeling and database analysis.

January-June 2008 and July-August 2009. Postdoctoral research, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany: soil respiration and eddy-covariance data quality control. Empirical modeling of soil respiration fluxes. Advisor: Dr. Werner Kutsch and Dr. Corinna Rebmann.

2004-2007. PhD thesis, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany: Hetero and autotrophic components of soil respiration in temperate ecosystems. First authored and edited book chapter on the subject. Advisors: Dr. Werner Kutsch and Prof. Ernst-D. Schulze

Co-supervised undergraduate thesis on soil carbon decomposition and temperature sensitivity. Supervised research assistant activities in the field and laboratory.

2004. Research assistant, measurements of atmospheric CO, Institute for Environmental Physiks (IUP), University of Heidelberg, Germany. Advisor: Dr. I. Levin

2003. Research assistant, project on the ecology of hanta virus infected rodents in Utah, University of Utah. Advisor: Dr. Denise Dearing

2002-2003. Diploma thesis on anatomical, chemical and functional properties of glandular scales on anthers of Leonurus japonica. Advisors: Dr. Alicia Sersic and Dr. Andrea Cocucci

2001. Research assistant to a project on insect diversity in the Tambopata-Candamo National Park, Peru. Advisor: Dr. Don Feener, University of Utah

Book Chapters

Moyano F.E., Atkin O.K., Bahn M., Bruhn D., Burton A.J, Heinemeyer A., Kutsch W.L., Wieser G. Respiration from Roots and the Mycorrhizosphere. In: Bahn, M., Heinemeyer, A.,Kutsch, W.L. (Eds.), Integrated Methodology on Soil Carbon Flux Measurements. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. In Press, available January 2010

Journal Articles

Kutsch W.L., Persson T., Schrumpf M., Moyano F. E., Mund M., Andersson S., Schulze E-D. Heterotrophic soil respiration and soil carbon dynamics in the deciduous Hainich Forest obtained by three approaches. Biogeochemistry. Submitted

Moyano F.E., Kutsch W.L., Rebmann C. Soil Respiration Fluxes in Relation to Photosynthetic Activity in Broad-Leaf and Needle-Leaf Forest Stands. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 148 (1): 135-143, 2008

Moyano F.E., Kutsch W.L., Schulze E-D. Response of Mycorrhizal, Rhizosphere and Soil Basal Respiration to Temperature and Photosynthesis in a Barley Field. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 39 (4): 843-853, 2007

Moyano F., Cocucci A.A., Sérsic A.N. Accessory pollen adhesive from glandular trichomes on the anthers of Leonurus sibiricus L. (Lamiaceae). Plant Biology 5 (4): 411-418, 2003

Miscellaneous Reviewed

Moyano F. E., Soil Respiration Fluxes and Controlling Factors in Temperate Forest and    Cropland Ecosystems, Dissertation, University of Tuebingen, Germany, 2008

AGU Fall Meeting. December 2010. San Francisco, USA. Poster presentation. Session chair.

Organic matter stabilization and ecosystem functions – SOM 2010. Presqu’île de Giens (France). September 2010. Oral presentation.

Final Conference of the ESF Programme: The Role of Soils in the Terrestrial Carbon Balance. November 2007. Pont à Mousson (France), Prémontrés Abbey, 20th – 22th November 2007. Oral presentation

Carboeurope Integrated Project, 4th Meeting. November 2006. Sissi-Lassithi, Crete. Poster presented

Carboeurope Integrated Project, 3rd Meeting. November 2005. Levi, Finland. Poster presented

Carboeurope Integrated Project, 2nd Meeting. January 2005. Dublin, Ireland. Poster presented

University of California, Irvine. February 2005. Training on isotope techniques. Oral presentation

Carboeurope / Cost 627 joint Workshop “Partitioning soil CO₂ efflux”. October 2004. Villa Orlandi, Capri, Italy. Poster presented

ESF Summerschool “Integrated Methodology on Soil Carbon Flux Measurements”. September 2004. Centro di Ecologia Alpina, Monte Bondone, Italy