Sara Heshmati

Dr. Sara Heshmati is a Researcher at the University of Hohenheim within the research group 'Sustainable Use of Natural Resources'. She teaches courses such as 'Global Challenges & Local Answers – Approaches for Sustainable Human-Nature-Relations' and supervises practical and seminar components of the Transformation Internship program. Her research focuses on sustainable agriculture, rangeland management, and ecological modeling.

Key research interests include optimizing nitrogen application in crops, analyzing drivers of rangeland degradation in Namibia, and investigating plant genetics in grass-clover mixtures for enhanced forage quality and yield stability. She employs advanced methods like unmanned aerial systems for rangeland monitoring and integrates socio-ecological frameworks to study tipping points in ecosystems.

Her publications span precision agriculture innovations, plant genetics impacts on crop performance, and soil seed bank dynamics in rangeland ecosystems. She contributes to interdisciplinary efforts linking ecological science with sustainable land-use policies.