Tinted detail of a photo: Forest of giant sequoias with massive, deeply furrowed orange-red trunks, among them thinner moss-covered grey trunks and young green conifers.
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Biogeosciences

Christoph Keuschnig

Christoph is a microbial ecologist and currently holds a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellowship at the German Research Center for Geosciences in Potsdam (GFZ). He uses metagenomic and metatranscriptomic tools to study microbial community functions in soil, snow and ice environments and recently focuses on bacterial-fungal interactions in soil and their impact on initial soil colonization.

Fieldwork and Family: Parenting in the Biogeosciences

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Four people stand side by side in colourful rain boots, their footwear heavily coated in dark brown mud. They are standing on a thick layer of wet, dark brown soil.

It took almost two years to write this blog post – not because the challenges described below are rare, but because the scarcest resource for parents in academia is uninterrupted time. Academic careers are built on time: time to think, to meet collaborators, to develop the next research proposal, and to finally get that paper …[Read More]