Emily Solly

Dr. Emily Solly is a Researcher in the Department of Computational Hydrosystems at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ (Leipzig, Germany) since September 2023. She holds a PhD in Chemistry and Geosciences from Friedrich Schiller University Jena (2014) and has previously held postdoctoral and fellow positions at ETH Zurich, Swiss Federal Institute WSL, and the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry.

• Education:
  • PhD (2014), Chemistry and Geosciences, Friedrich Schiller University Jena
  • MSc (2010), Environmental Sciences and Management, University of Torino
  • BSc (2008), Natural Sciences, University of Torino (Biology, Ecology)

Research Interests:

• Soil biogeochemistry and terrestrial ecosystem ecology
• Carbon and nutrient balance in forest ecosystems
• Root-soil interface processes under environmental change
• Impact of drought on plant-soil-microbial interactions
• Isotope-based tracking of carbon/nitrogen transformations
• Soil organic carbon storage mechanisms

Awards & Funding:

• Ambizione Fellowship (SNSF)

Roles & Collaborations:

• Topical Editor for the journal SOIL
• Co-Editor of Special Issue on Global Change Effects on Terrestrial Biogeochemistry at the Plant-Soil Interface (Biogeosciences, 2022)
• Contributor to the collaborative project Standardized Monitoring of Growth Responses of Central European Forest Tree Species to Climatic Extremes (MW³)
• Member of the Computational Hydrosystems working group at UFZ