Transfer of technology
In the BTU transfer database, you can quickly and clearly find suitable competences and equipment for possible cooperation, research or development projects.
We are proud to be a part of it!
You can find more information under Research and Business Co-operation.
Our competences / research areas
- Terrestrial ecosystems: soil and plant interactions
- Agroforestry
- Recultivation post-mining
- Effects from wildfires on emissions, soil functioning and vegetation regeneration
- Nitrogen and phosphorus cycling and limitation
- Stable isotope techniques (nitrogen, carbon etc) for experimental work
- Mountain rainforest, boreal forest, arctic tundra
- Responses to climate change factors: warming, drought, elevated CO2 in atmosphere
- Biological soil crusts
- Modern fertilisers: apatite, rock powder, struvite
Our equipment
- ICP-OES from Thermo Fischer
- CNS Analyser from Elementar
- TC/TN/TOC/DOC analyser from Shimadzu
- Microwave for CEM digestion
- IC analyser for anion measurements
- FIA analyser for the determination of nitrate and ammonium
- Basic laboratory equipment for wet chemical analyses
- Basic laboratory equipment for sample preparation (soil and water)
- IRMS
- LGR
- Greenhouse
- Offers for personnel recruitment
- Student project work
- Final theses
- Guest lectures in lectures
Contact us
Prof. Ph. D. Louise Rütting
Konrad-Wachsmann-Allee 6
03046 Cottbus Zw. Bau LG 2C/2D
Raum 136
louise.ruetting(at)b-tu.de