Prof. Dr. Stéphane Burgos
Profile
Prof. Dr. Stéphane Burgos Dozent Bodenkunde
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Address
Berner Fachhochschule
School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences HAFL
Fachbereich Agronomie
Länggasse 85
3052 Zollikofen
Activities
Responsibilities
Head of the Soil Use and Conservation Group
Focus areas
Field experience (soil profiles and mapping)
Data management and analysis (GIS, R, Python)
Agricultural science and interdisciplinarity
Teaching
Degree programmes
Agronomy
Subjects
Soil Science I: Field description and Appraisal of Soils
Soil Science II: The Soil, Basis of Crop Production
Plant Nutrition and Fertilisation
Interdisciplinary excursions, synthesis module, irrigation
Research
Specialisations
Preservation of soil fertility (erosion control, carbon management)
Development of mapping methods, conventionnal and digital soil mapping
Management of organic soils
Soil description and classification
Focus areas
Agricultural science
Soil description in the field (profiles and mapping)
Use of data management tools (GIS, R, Python, etc)
Interdisciplinarity
CV
Professional experience
- Since 2015 Professor of Soil Science School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences, Bern University of Applied Sciences (BFH-HAFL)
- 2000–2015 Professor of Soil Science Changins School of Viticulture and Enology, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland
- 1996 Lecturer in Pedology Grangeneuve Agricultural School, Fribourg
Education
- 1997–2000 PhD: Genetic analysis and early testing of the specific stress tolerance of spelt. Doctoral thesis n° 13835, Natural Sciences ETH Zurich
- 1991–1996 MSc in Agricultural Science, Crop Production ETH Zurich
Projects
Other projects
Programme for the sustainable use of humus resources (SO)
Analysis and use of legacy pedological data (VD, GE, SH, BE, FR)
Memberships
Internal memberships
Agronomy
External memberships
Member of the Swiss Soil Science Society (former president)
Member of the Swiss Society of Agronomy
Language skills and intercultural knowledge
Language skills
- French - Native or bilingual proficiency
- German - Full professional proficiency
- English - Professional working proficiency