Hi everyone,
My name is Xingguo Han, and I’m excited to join the Functional Ecology group as a postdoc with Johannes Rousk. My research focuses on microbial ecology — in particular, how microbes respond and adapt to environmental change, and what this means for biogeochemistry and climate feedbacks.
I’m originally from China, where I studied Environmental Engineering for my Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees. I then moved to ETH Zurich for my PhD in Environmental Microbiology, where I investigated how eutrophication affects microbial communities and carbon cycling in lake sediments. After that, I worked as a postdoc at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), studying soil microbial communities across climatic gradients in Europe and South Africa within the Biodiversa+ project. That work explored how microbial diversity and metabolism shape soil carbon cycling and greenhouse gas fluxes under warming and drought.
At Lund, I look forward to contributing my expertise in soil biodiversity and microbial processes to projects on ecosystem functioning under global change — such as warming, drought, and extreme events — through both field and lab experiments.
Outside of research, I enjoy cooking (I make pretty good dumplings), as well as hiking, playing tennis, and doing some beginner-level bouldering.
