Prof. Dr. Martin Maier

As the new Professor of Soil Physics at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Martin Maier has been setting up a new laboratory here since summer 2022. He previously worked as a permanent scientist and laboratory manager with Heike Puhlmann in the Soils and Environment Department of the Forest Research Institute (FVA) Baden-Württemberg, after working as a PostDoc on a "Eigene Stelle" (DFG) with Fritzi Lang at the Chair of Soil Ecology at the University of Freiburg.
Martin's research focuses on soil physical processes and in particular the transport and turnover of trace gases, as well as plant physiological and ecological principles and relationships.


Head of Department and Professor of Soil Physics in the Department of Crop Sciences at Georgs-August University.

10/2017 -07/2022
Scientist and scientific laboratory manager of the Soil & Environment Department of the FVA Baden-Württemberg (FVA-BW).

08/2014 - 09/2017
Post-Doc Researcher (DFG funded "Eigene Stelle") at the Chair of Soil Ecology (Prof. F. Lang), University of Freiburg.
Project: "Soil-gas transport-processes as key factors for CH4 oxidation in soils".

04/2013 - 07/2013
Research stay at INRA Nancy, Mixed Research Unit Forest Ecology and Eco-Physiology with Bernard Longodz and André Granier (DAAD Post-Doc scholarship). Project: "Analysis of vertical distribution of 12CO2/13CO2 production in the soil".

05/2012 - 03/2013
Post-Doc, scientific employee, project development

10/2008 - 12/2011
PhD student at the Department of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition (Prof. E.E. Hildebrand), University of Freiburg.
Project: "Short and-mid-term variability of CO2 storage and CO2 fluxes in the soil".

10/2001 - 12/2007
Student of Forest Sciences at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg.