BAHN Michael Mag. Dr., Univ.-Prof.
University of Innsbruck
Department of Ecology
Head of the Research Group: Functional Ecology
Head of the Innsbruck Doctoral College (IDC) Alpine Biology and Global Change
Sternwartestraße 15, Room 410
A-6020 Innsbruck
Research Interests
Plant, soil and ecosystem processes: biogeochemical cycles; carbon dynamics and interactions with the water and nutrient cycles; global change; greenhouse gas emissions; isotopic tracers; mountain ecosystems; plant ecology and ecophysiology; plant-soil interactions; plant traits and ecosystem functioning.
Research Projects
Principle Investigator (PI), Site PI and workpackage leader of various national (FWF, ÖAW, TWF) and international (EU-FP4, 7, Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe) projects. For list of current and recent projects see Research Group Functional Ecology.
Publications
>200 peer-reviewed publications in mostly leading international journals (including Nature and Science) and books (including a book on ‘Soil Carbon Dynamics’, Cambridge University Press).
More than 50 invited talks at major international conferences and research institutions.
Scientific Community Services
- Editorial Boards of Biogeosciences (from 2009, Co-Editor-in-Chief 2014-2023) and Global Change Biology (Advisory Board 2014-2017)
- Ad-hoc reviewing for more than 30 international journals, 15 international funding agencies and 20 international research institutions .
- Member of international research panels, including an ERC Advanced Grant Panel (2023-24)
- Scientific Advisory Committee Member for international projects, including AnaEE-ERIC (Analysis and Experimentation on Ecosystems; since 2022), the EU project LOESS (on soil education contributing to the Soil Deal for Europe; since 2023) and the Jena Experiment (Mercator Fellow, since 2024).
Teaching and Mentoring
Regular teaching (lectures, seminars, field courses, international summer schools), mentor / supervisor / advisor of 10 Post-Docs, >15 Ph.D. and >45 M.Sc. students (theses), and supervisor of >20 internships and related theses of several students from Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Slovakia and Spain.