Welcoming Dr. Stefan Geisen to the Soil Ecology Letters (SEL) Editorial board.

We are pleased to announce Dr. Stefan Geisen, Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands, has recently joined the SEL Editorial board, in the role of Editorial Board Member.

Dr. Stefan Geisen is a molecular ecologist who focuses on the interactions of microbiome predators (protists and nematodes) with their bacterial and fungal prey and the functional implication of these interactions such as on the performance of plants, greenhouse gas emissions and other soil functions.

He also interested in understanding the drivers of microbiome predator communities in soils and the resulting change in their function. For that, he is optimizing techniques to better study these organisms particularly focusing on metabarcoding (high-throughput amplicon sequencing) but also other techniques to estimate their abundances and biomasses.

Also other soil organisms are in the scope of his research to eventually get a more complete understanding of the biodiversity in soils. 

Stefan,s website: https://www.wur.nl/en/Persons/Stefan-dr.-SA-Stefan-Geisen.htm