My name is Gabriel Monteiro, and I am a PhD student at the International Max Planck School for Biogeochemical Cycles at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry under the supervision of apl. Prof. Gerd Gleixner. I’ll mainly work in the Amazon Tall Tower Observatory site, connecting soil microbial metabolism and its effects on the dynamics of dissolved organic matter. I’m especially interested in how soil microbes and molecules change throughout seasons and with extreme events.

Research interests

"Essentially, all life depends upon the soil. There can be no life without soil and no soil without life. They have evolved together." (C. Kellogg)

I am a soil microbial and chemical ecologist fascinated by plant-soil-microbe interactions. My goal as a researcher is to explore the complex interactions between aboveground plants and the belowground soil and microbes in tropical ecosystems, in the context of climate change.