Thesis projects at Soil Chemistry

If you are interested in doing your BSc or MSc thesis in our group, you can take a look at the list of thesis projects below that are currently available. If you would like to know more about a specific topic you can send a message to the people involved in your topic of interest.

Thesis coordinator prof.dr. RNJ (Rob) Comans

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Thesis coordinator MJ (Hannah) Vos PhD

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Any questions about our theses?

If you don’t yet have a specific topic in mind, or if it concerns a more general question about conducting your thesis research in our group, you can contact both thesis coordinators of our group:

prof.dr. RNJ (Rob) Comans
Thesis coordinator
MJ (Hannah) Vos PhD
Thesis coordinator

Our thesis projects

Project Exploring organo-mineral associations in ripening sediments
Project Contribution of clay application to SOC stabilization in Dutch peat meadows
Project Long-term chemical losses of phosphorus fertilizer
Project Help us to improve efficient P fertilization!
Project Puzzling organic matter fractions: Characterization of Hy and HON fractions
Project Technological-critical Rare Earth Elements: Binding to iron-oxide nanoparticles
Project Displacement of competing metals by iron from metal-siderophore complexes
Project Micronutrient acquisition in extreme environments: the sodic soils of the Neusiedler See (AT)
Project Contaminant concentrations in landfill pore water: changes during stimulated degradation
Project Unravelling the composition of the hydrophilic acids SOM fraction
Project Synergies in plant nutrient acquisition
Project Development of guidelines for soil function restoration and monitoring
Project Eliminating the competition: can Fe uptake by plants be improved by applying soil additives
Project Towards a mechanistic basis for the DTPA/EDTA-extraction for establishing the micronutrient availability in soils
Project High affinity adsorption to Fe-oxide nano particles. Does it occur and is sulfate involved?
Project Long-term trends in leachate contaminant concentrations of bioreactor landfills
Project Effect of pH on organic matter concentrations and humic substance fractions
Project Selective removal of Cd from agricultural soils using chelating ligands
Project The effect of naturally occurring ligands on the weathering rate of stone meal
Project Investigating the interactions between enhanced silicate weathering and growth of legumes
Project The effect of pH on the determination of permanganate-oxidisable carbon (POXC)
Project Soil function restoration at abandoned artisanal and small-scall gold mining sites in Suriname
Project Develop microplastic extraction method from soil
Project Predicting the effect of low molecular weight organic acids (LMWOAs)
Project Photocatalyzed Fe acquisition from atmospheric dust in marine environments
Project Elucidating the mechanisms and controls of enhanced silicate weathering
Project Elucidating the controls on enhanced rock weathering using reactive transport modelling
Project How do different soil processes respond to changes in temperature?