Prof Dr Efstathios Diamantopoulos takes over the professorship for Soil Physics

Prof Dr Efstathios Diamantopoulos studied agriculture engineering in Greece. After completing his studies, he moved to the Soil Physics group in Braunschweig for his postdoc, working in various projects. Afterwards, he moved to UC Davis in California, where he  worked more in soil hydrology and large scale simulations. "In 2018, I became Associate professor on 'Agrohydrology and Biophysical Modelling' at the University of Copenhagen. So, I am an environmental soil physicist with expertise in quantifying flow and transport processes in the vadose zone.", he emphasises. "My scientific curiosity is focused on the understanding and the analysis between the discrepancy of theory predictions and actual observations (direct or indirect), targeting, from a soil physics perspective, the non-linear feedback between plants, soil chemistry, soil ecology, soil hydrology."

Scientific focus areas:

• Soil BioPhysics, plant-soil interactions, flow and transport processes in the vadose zone
• Modeling of soil-plant-atmosphere systems
• Numerical modeling of water flow, vapor, heat, and solute transport in porous media
• Non-equilibrium water flow, SHPs of water repellent soils
• Estimation of parameter and prediction uncertainty of environmental models