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Researcher
Erik Smolders
- Disciplines:Soil sciences, challenges and pollution, Agriculture, land and farm management
Affiliations
- Faculty of Bioscience Engineering (Faculty)
Responsible
From1 Aug 2023 → Today - Soil and Water Management (Division)
Member
From1 Aug 2020 → Today - Division of Soil and Water Management (Division)
Member
From1 Oct 1999 → 31 Jul 2020
Projects
1 - 10 of 62
- The effect of soil structure on the bioavailability of trace metalsFrom29 Feb 2024 → TodayFunding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- PC – Biological and geochemical controls of Phosphate saturation on organic Carbon in agricultural soilsFrom1 Jan 2024 → TodayFunding: FWO research project (including WEAVE projects)
- Predicting the long-term effects of iron addition on phosphorus dynamics in streams using modelling and high-resolution in-situ techniques.From1 Oct 2023 → TodayFunding: FWO junior postdoctoral fellowship
- The role of soil colloids and nanofertilizers on phosphorus bioavailability to plantsFrom18 Sep 2023 → TodayFunding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Metal exposure from manufacture and use of artisanal cookwares and its impact on the public healthFrom24 Mar 2023 → TodayFunding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Multiscale Characterization of Exchangeable Potassium Content in Soil to Remediate Agricultural Land Affected by Radioactive Contamination using Machine Learning , Soil Spectroscopy and Remote Sensing.From1 Mar 2023 → TodayFunding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Development of a novel in situ phenotyping methodology to measure nitrification in the rhizosphere.From3 Oct 2022 → TodayFunding: FWO fellowships
- Reactive Membranes to Map Colloid and Solute Fluxes in Undisturbed SoilsFrom1 Oct 2022 → TodayFunding: BOF - projects
- The Identification of the Reactive Pore Space in SoilsFrom1 Oct 2022 → TodayFunding: Horizon Europe - European Research Council (ERC)
- Combining high-resolution in situ techniques and modelling to unravel the long-term effects of iron addition on phosphorus dynamics around sediment-water interfaceFrom1 Oct 2022 → 30 Sep 2023Funding: BOF - postdoctoral mandates
Publications
11 - 20 of 334
- Colloids facilitate cadmium and uranium transport in an undisturbed soil: A comparison of soil solution isolation methods(2023)
Authors: Benoit Bergen, Claudia Moens, Erik Smolders
- Monitoring cadmium concentrations in cacao: inter-laboratory variation and the effect of sample size on variability among ready-for-sale beans(2023)
Authors: Jesse Dekeyrel, Bart De Ketelaere, Erik Smolders
Pages: 1218 - 1229 - Screening redox stability of iron rich by-products for effective phosphate immobilisation in freshwater sediments(2023)
Authors: Lei Xia, Florian Lauryssen, Erik Smolders
- Comparison of five methods to determine the cation exchange capacity of soil(2023)
Authors: Erik Smolders
Pages: 311 - 320 - Layered Transition Metal Molybdates as New Slow-Release Micronutrient Fertilizer Matrices for Zn, Cu, and Mo(2023)
Authors: Maarten Everaert, Erik Smolders
Pages: 7859 - 7867 - Soil amendments to reduce cadmium in cacao (Theobroma cacao L.): A comprehensive field study in Ecuador.(2023)
Authors: Jesse Dekeyrel, Erik Smolders
- Root biomass explains genotypic differences in phosphorus uptake of rainfed rice subjected to water and phosphorus stresses(2023)
Authors: Mieke Verbeeck, Roel Merckx, Erik Smolders
Pages: 253 - 271 - Effect of external and internal loading on source-sink phosphorus dynamics of river sediment amended with iron-rich glauconite sand(2023)
Authors: Lei Xia, Mieke Verbeeck, Benoit Bergen, Erik Smolders
- Revealing the pathways of cadmium uptake and translocation in cacao trees (Theobroma cacao L.): A 108Cd pulse-chase experiment(2023)
Authors: Erik Smolders
- Exploring Genetic Diversity in an Ilex crenata Breeding Germplasm(2023)
Authors: Esther Geukens, Erik Smolders
Patents
1 - 2 of 2
- Cadmium removal from cacao (Inventor)
- Cadmium removal from intact cacao beans after fermentation (Inventor)