Dr. Mina Azizi Rad

Since 2022
Postdoctoral Researcher at the Soil science section, Institute of Earth System Sciences, Leibniz University Hannover

2018 – 2022
Research Assictant, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Department of the Biogeochemical Processes

2007 – 2015
Start-up Company Manager in Soil, Water, Plant and Fertilizer Analytical Laboratory, Mahabad, Iran

2006 – 2007
Laboratory Assistant – laboratory manager training programme – to establish Soil, Water and Plant
Analysis laboratory, Soil Chemistry Department, Soil and Water Research Institute, Karaj, Iran

02/2018 – 03/2022
Ph.D. Biogeochemistry at Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover;
Member of IRTG "Geoecosystems in Transition on the Tibetan Plateau" (TransTiP), working at Max-Planck institute for Biogeochemistry of Jena; “Dissertation title: Sensitivity of Soil Organic Carbon to the Change in Climate on the Tibetan Plateau”

10/2015 – 08/2018
2nd M.Sc. Evolution, Ecology and Systematic at Friedrich-Schiller University Jena;
Thesis title: Seasonal Changes of Microbial Community Composition and Its Carbon Uptake in Rhizospheric and Non-Rhizospheric Soil

2017 – 2018
Internship and M.Sc. thesis project in Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry

2008 – 2010
1st M.Sc. Soil Science (Soil Chemistry and Plant Nutrition), Azad University of Karaj, Karaj, Iran;
Thesis Title: Chemical Behavior of Potassium in the Main Soil Series of West Azerbaijan, Iran
Soil and Water Department, Agricultural and Natural Resource Research Centre of West Azerbaijan

2002 – 2008
B.Sc. Soil Science (Soil Microbiology), Urmia State University, Urmia, Iran;
Thesis Title: Review for AMF symbiosis of tomato in soils of southern region of Urmia

Since 2022
KliFa, Klima Farming in Niedersachsen

2018 - 2022
TransTiP, IRTG
Geoecosystems in Transition on the Tibetan Plateau, DFG Project

since 2020
Member of American Geography Union (AGU)

since 2018
Member of IRTG “Geo-ecosystems in Transition on the Tibetan Plateau” (TransTiP) – PhD student

2009 - 2015
Member of Agricultural and Natural Resource Research Centre of West Azerbaijan,
Membership in Plant Nutrition Committee of West Azerbaijan, Iran
Membership in Iranian Soil Laboratory Managers Committee