Rate My Professor Feike Dijkstra

Professor Feike Dijkstra serves as Professor of Terrestrial Biogeochemistry in the Faculty of Science at the University of Sydney, within the School of Life and Environmental Sciences. He holds an MSc degree from Wageningen University obtained in 1996 and a PhD from the same institution in 2001. Dijkstra's research centers on plant-microbial interactions that govern carbon and nutrient cycling, with a particular emphasis on their responses to global climate change. He joined the University of Sydney in 2010, having previously served as a research scientist at the US Department of Agriculture in Fort Collins, Colorado from 2007 to 2010, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Santa Cruz from 2004 to 2006, and another postdoctoral position at the University of Minnesota in Saint Paul from 2001 to 2004. During his tenure at Sydney, he was awarded an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship from 2011 to 2015, which provided funding of $745,169 for his research.

Dijkstra's scholarly impact is substantial, evidenced by 18,242 citations and an h-index of 72 on Google Scholar, along with 16,110 citations on ResearchGate across 295 publications. His key contributions include the paper 'Quantifying global soil carbon losses in response to warming' published in Nature in 2016 (1,532 citations), 'Drought effect on plant nitrogen and phosphorus: a meta-analysis' in New Phytologist in 2014 (807 citations), 'Rhizosphere priming: a nutrient perspective' in Frontiers in Microbiology in 2013 (714 citations), 'C4 grasses prosper as carbon dioxide eliminates desiccation in warmed semi-arid grassland' in Nature in 2011 (600 citations), and 'Simple additive effects are rare: a quantitative review of plant biomass and soil process responses to combined manipulations of CO2 and temperature' in Global Change Biology in 2012 (517 citations). He is affiliated with the Sydney Biogeochemistry Laboratory and the Sydney Institute of Agriculture, advancing understanding of soil processes and ecosystem responses to environmental changes.