Prof. Dr. Johan Six
Prof. Dr. Johan Six
Full Professor at the Department of Environmental Systems Science
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Professor Six’s research focuses on the feedbacks between agroecosystem management options, biogeochemical cycling, food system functioning and global change. More specifically, his group studies how management affects the complex interactions between soil, plants, and carbon and nutrient fluxes within agroecosystems and its implications for food system functioning within a continuously changing global environment. His group conducts experimental work from the microscale to the landscape scale and subsequently integrates its findings into simulation modeling to underpin the mechanistic bases of the used models, and predict agroecosystem and food system functioning across space and time.
Johan Six has been Full Professor of Sustainable Agroecosystems at the Institute of Agricultural Sciences since March 2013.
He was born in Belgium in 1972.
Johan Six studied Soil Science and Tropical Agriculture at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. After that, he conducted his PhD research at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory (NREL) of Colorado State University. After receiving his PhD in Soil Science in 1998, he remained as a Research Scientist at the NREL until 2002.
In 2002 he took a position as professor at the University of California, Davis, CA.
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Dr. Six is a Chancellor’s Fellow of the University of California, Davis, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, holder of the Philippe Duchaufour Medal of European Geosciences Union, a Distinguished Ecologist of Colorado State University, and recognised as a Highly Cited Researcher in 2015, 2016 and 2017 by Thomson Reuters. In 2019 and 2020, he was recognised as a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics Web of Science Group.
Catalogue de cours
Spring Semester 2025
| Numéro | Manifestation |
|---|---|
| 170-0015-00L | Sustainable Agricultural Engineering |
| 751-0025-00L | Design ideas for sustainable food systems |
| 751-5000-00L | Sustainable Agroecosystems I |
| 751-5001-00L | Agroecologists without Borders |
| 751-5102-00L | Biogeochemical Modeling of Agroecosystems |
| 751-5201-10L | Tropical Cropping Systems, Soils and Livelihoods (with Excursion) |