Minsu Kim

Minsu Kim is a University Assistant with Doctorate at the Institute of Biology, University of Graz (Austria). His research focuses on environmental systems science, particularly biological soil crusts (biocrusts), microbial ecology, and atmospheric interactions in dryland ecosystems. He has held roles including SNSF PostDoc.Mobility Fellow and Postdoctoral Researcher at Empa (Switzerland), with a PhD from ETH Zürich (2015).

• Affiliations: Institute of Biology, University of Graz; previously at Empa, ETH Zürich, and Seoul National University (SNU).
• Key Projects: Led studies on biocrust CO₂ uptake mechanisms, soil nitrogen cycling, and air pollution modeling using satellite data.
• Key Skills: Agent-based modeling, computational biogeochemistry, remote sensing downscaling, and microbial community dynamics analysis.

Research interests include biocrust dynamics, microscale soil-atmosphere interactions, nitrogen cycling, and high-resolution air pollution mapping. He developed models like the Desert Biocrust Model (DBM) to explain nocturnal CO₂ uptake in drylands and contributed to HONO emission mechanisms in soil systems.

His work bridges environmental engineering, microbiology, and atmospheric science, with applications to climate modeling and pollution mitigation. Notable outputs include peer-reviewed articles in journals like Science of the Total Environment and Biogeosciences.