• since 2011
  acad. Research associate at the Brandenburg University of Technology at the FZLB in the DFG Collaborative Research Centre TRR 38 "Structures and Processes of Initial Ecosystem Development in an Artificial Watershed"/ Subproject A4 - "Development and Interaction of Flow Paths on and in the Soil"
• 2008-2011
  acad. Research associate at the Leibnitz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research, Institute of Soil Landscape Research in the DFG Collaborative Research Centre TRR 38 "Structures and processes of initial ecosystem development in an artificial watershed"/ sub-project A4 - "Development and interaction of flow paths on and in the soil"
• 2005-2008
  acad. Research assistant at the Brandenburg University of Technology at the Chair of Soil Protection and Recultivation in the DFG project "Local imbalances and associated soil chemical and physical process dynamics as a characteristic of disturbed sites".
• 2003-2005
  Master's degree in Agricultural Sciences at the University of Stuttgart/Hohenheim with a focus on soil sciences, title of Master's thesis: "Characterisation of soil chemical and physical properties as a basis for sustainable agriculture in Zimbabwe"
• 1999-2003
  Bachelor's degree in Agricultural Sciences at the Christian-Albrechts-University (Kiel)
  specialising in plant production, title of Bachelor's thesis: "Influencing the wettability of aggregate surfaces by varying the soil reaction"

• Soil physics and hydrology
• Application of tracer dyes
• Non-invasive imaging measurement methods (computer and neutron radiography)

Peer-reviewed

- Badorreck, A., H.H. Gerke & R. F. Hüttl, 2012. effects of ground-dwelling beetle burrows on infiltration patterns and pore structure of initial soil surfaces. vadose zone journal, in press

- Badorreck, A., H.H. Gerke & P. Vontobel, 2010. Noninvasive observation of flow patterns in locally heterogeneous mine soils using neutron radiation. Vadose Zone Journal, 9, 362-372, doi: 10.2136/vzj2009.0100.

- Gerke, H. H., A. Badorreck & M. Einecke, 2009. single- and dual-porosity modelling of flow in reclaimed mine soil cores with embedded lignitic fragments. J. Cont. Hydrol. 104 (1-4): 90-106.

Other publications

- Badorreck, A. & H.H. Gerke, 2011. Effects of physical soil crusts and biopores on water fluxes and soil structure in the initial stage of soil development. Workshop "Soil structure development and functions" 28-29 Nov. 2011, Kiel.

- Badorreck, A. & H.H. Gerke, 2011 Visualisation of soil structure modifications and infiltration patterns by ground-dwelling beetle larvae and moss vegetation. Geophysical Research Abstracts, EGU2011-4625.

- Badorreck, A., H.H. Gerke, U. Weller & P. Vontobel, 2010. Visualisation of soil structure and pore structure modifications by pioneering ground beetles (Cicindelidae) in surface sedi-ments of an artificial catchment. Geophysical Research Abstracts, 12, EGU2010-10859.

- Bartl, S., D. Biemelt, A. Badorreck & H.H. Gerke, 2010. Observations of flow path interactions with surface structures during initial soil development stage using irrigation experiments. Geophysical Research Abstracts, 12, EGU2010-10012.

- Badorreck, A., H.H. Gerke & P. Vontobel, 2009. Unsaturated flow patterns observed in mine soils with embedded porous fragments using neutron radiography. Geophysical Research Abstracts, 11, EGU2009-12218.

- Badorreck, A., H.H. Gerke, U. Weller & P. Vontobel, 2009. Soil sealing and vesicular layer formation as initial structure development and its effect on infiltration. Geophysical Rese-arch Abstracts, 11, EGU2009-12198.

- Badorreck, A., H.H. Gerke & P. Vontobel, 2009. Neutron-radiographic investigations of small-scale heterogeneous water movement in coal-rich tilting soils. - In: Annual Conference of the DBG : Soils - An Endangered Resource ; Commission VIII, September 2009, Bonn: 1-3; Oldenburg (Deutsche Bodenkundliche Gesellschaft).

- Biemelt, D., S. Bartl, H.H. Gerke, A. Badorreck & A. Schapp, 2009. Analysis of interactions between infiltration and runoff as a function of surface structures with a complex irrigation experiment. In: Reports of the DBG: Soils - a finite resource, September 2009, Bonn. eprints.dbges.de/212/.

- Gerke, H.H., T. Maurer, A. Klauke, R. Dominik, M. Dimitrov, D. Biemelt & A. Badorreck, 2008 Modelling the initial 3D sediment structure of an artificially constructed hydrological catchment. Geophysical Research Abstracts, 10, EGU2008-A-08558.

- Gerke, H.H., T. Maurer, J. Dusek, A. Klauke & A. Badorreck, 2008. A 3D structural model of a lignitic mine soil based on classification and interpolation of profile images. Abstract EU-ROSOIL 2008, Vienna, 25-29 August 2008.