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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
11 - 20 of 62
- A novel reactive membrane technique: mapping solutes and colloids in unsaturated, undisturbed soils at micrometre resolutionFrom29 Sep 2022 → TodayFunding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Metal exposure from manufacture and use of artisanal cookwares and its impact on the public healthFrom19 Sep 2022 → 23 Mar 2023Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Overcoming soil phosphorus deficiency by novel and cost-efficient phosphate recycling from waste streams in the PhilippinesFrom1 Sep 2022 → TodayFunding: VLIR-UOS TEAM
- WISH-ROOT: Tuning the wheat root microbiome to improve soil health and optimize rhizosphere nitrogen cycling and availabilityFrom1 Apr 2022 → TodayFunding: FWO research project (including WEAVE projects)
- Integration of zeolite-based technology for adsorptive PFAS capture in soil remediation strategiesFrom1 Mar 2022 → TodayFunding: IOF - technology validation in lab
- Optimization and validation of postharvest mitigation strategies to reduce the Cd content in cacao-derived consumer products.From1 Jan 2022 → 31 Dec 2022Funding: IOF - mandates
- Local is hot: innovative approaches to unravel the benefits of local over broadcast applications of lime and phosphate fertilizers in weathered soilsFrom28 Sep 2021 → TodayFunding: FWO Strategic Basic Research Grant
- Mitigating cadmium uptake in cacao (Theobroma cacao L.) with biochar made of local feedstocks in the Peruvian AmazonFrom20 Sep 2021 → 31 Oct 2022Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Speciation and transport of RRE in Passive Treatment Systems of the Iberian Pyrite BeltFrom28 Jan 2021 → TodayFunding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Development of novel fast screening methods to predict cadmium concentrations in cacao beansFrom16 Dec 2020 → TodayFunding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
Publications
1 - 10 of 334
- The phosphorus saturation degree as a universal agronomic and environmental soil P test(2024)
Authors: Erik Smolders
Pages: 385 - 404 - The economic costs of cadmium non-tariff measures for smallholder cocoa farmers in Ecuador(2024)
Authors: Erik Smolders, Miet Maertens
Pages: 1147 - 1166 - Do contaminants compromise the use of recycled nutrients in organic agriculture? A review and synthesis of current knowledge on contaminant concentrations, fate in the environment and risk assessment(2024)
Authors: Erik Smolders
- Internal loading of phosphorus in streams described by a Sediment-Water Exchange Model for Phosphorus (SWEMP): From lab to field scale(2024)
Authors: Toon van Dael, Charlotte Vermeiren, Erik Smolders
- Extrapolating Metal (Cu, Ni, Zn) Toxicity from Individuals to Populations Across Daphnia Species Using Mechanistic Models: The Roles of Uncertainty Propagation and Combined Physiological Modes of Action(2024)
Authors: Erik Smolders
Pages: 338 - 358 - Cadmium speciation in cacao beans changes during a fermentation-like incubation(2024)
Authors: Erik Smolders
- Accelerated weathering of silicate rock dusts predicts the slow-release liming in soils depending on rock mineralogy, soil acidity, and test methodology(2023)
Authors: Robrecht Van Der Bauwhede, Bart Muys, Karen Vancampenhout, Erik Smolders
- Transplacental transfer of cobalt: Evidence from a study of mothers and their neonates in the African Copperbelt(2023)
Authors: Erik Smolders, Benoit Nemery de Bellevaux, Tim Nawrot
- Metal Mixture Toxicity of Ni, Cu, and Zn in Freshwater Algal Communities and the Correlation of Single-Species Sensitivities Among Single Metals: A Comparative Analysis(2023)
Authors: Erik Smolders
Pages: 2666 - 2683 - Remediation of acid mine drainage and immobilization of rare earth elements: Comparison between natural and residual alkaline materials(2023)
Authors: Erik Smolders
Patents
1 - 2 of 2
- Cadmium removal from cacao (Inventor)
- Cadmium removal from intact cacao beans after fermentation (Inventor)