Andrew Margenot
Associate Professor, College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, UIUC
Bio
Dr. Andrew Margenot is a soil scientist and currently an Associate Professor at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he leads a research team on improving understanding and management of soil fertility and nutrients in agroecosystems, with particular emphasis on the US Corn Belt. Having first fallen in love with phosphorus in eastern Africa conducting his Ph.D. research on smallholder agroecosystems, his research has since expanded to phosphorus across scales, from molecular to watershed and from a growing season to the last century. Dr. Margenot’s team takes a biogeochemical approach to understanding and managing the mechanisms that underpin soil functions in cropping systems. A large emphasis of this work is on soil organic matter cycling, and nitrogen and phosphorus use efficiency, and off-farm losses.
Education
Ph.D. Soils and Biogeochemistry University of California Davis 2016
B.A. Philosophy; Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Connecticut College 2010
Area(s) of Expertise
Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy
Soil fertility in East Africa
Urban agriculture
Phosphorus
Soil organic matter and enzymes