PEAK-Expert
Christina Biasi
Focus
SOIL ECOLOGY
Contact
email:
christina.biasi@uibk.ac.at
phone:
+43 512 507 51613
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Department of Ecology
Speaks: English, German
Christina Biasi is an ecologist at the Department of Ecology at the University of Innsbruck. Within the Functional Ecology Group, she studies how climate change affects biogeochemical processes in northern and alpine ecosystems. Her main interest lies in how permafrost soils and peatlands, as major carbon stores, respond to warming and influence the global climate.
Her research combines fieldwork in Arctic and Alpine regions with experimental approaches and collaboration with modelling experts to better understand the interactions between soil processes and the Earth’s climate system. In the ERC Synergy Grant project CLIMPEAT, she and her international partners study how permafrost thaw in northern Finland alters these dynamic
Focus cloud: Permafrost, peatlands, climate change, greenhouse gases, biogeochemistry, Arctic research
About
Christina Biasi studied biology at the University of Innsbruck and completed her PhD at the University of Vienna, focusing on the effects of climate change on biogeochemical processes in Arctic ecosystems. An expert in the application of isotopes in soil ecology, she spent nearly two decades at the University of Eastern Finland, where she built up extensive international research collaborations. She is regarded as one of the leading scientists in soil ecology and has been working since 2021 as a research scientist in the Functional Ecology Group at the Department of Ecology at the University of Innsbruck. In November 2025, she was awarded an ERC Synergy Grant by the European Research Council, one of Europe’s most prestigious research grants.