Susan Trumbore

Susan Trumbore has been at MPI-BGC since 2009. She is also Professor of Earth System Science at the University of California Irvine and Honorary Professor in the faculty of Chemistry and Geology at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena. She is a co-coordinator of the joint Brazilian/German ATTO project. Trumbore’s main research contribution is the application of radiocarbon to study the dynamics of carbon cycling in plants and soils. Her honors include election to the Academia Europaea (2020), the US National Academy of Science (2010) and other scientific associations. In 2019 Trumbore was awarded the Marsh Award for Climate Change Research at the annual meeting of the British Ecological Society and, in 2020, the Balzan Prize in Earth System Dynamics for her research using radiocarbon to study the carbon cycle. She was also awarded the 2021 Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky Medal of the EGU. Trumbore is the coordinator of ATTO Project in Germany.