Keynote Speakers

Prof. Karen Muller

Karin Müller is a senior scientist at Plant & Food Research in Hamilton, New Zealand and is heading Plant & Food Research’s Production Footprints Team. She obtained her PhD in 2000 at the Justus-Liebig University in Gießen, Germany, on ‘measuring and modelling point and non-point source pesticide contamination of surface waters’. From 2000 to 2009, Karin then worked at AgResearch in Hamilton. Her research interests include investigating solute leaching & runoff under artificial/natural rainfall at different scales to assess risks of different management practices. Recently Karin has led several projects on investigating causes, occurrence and impacts of soil water repellency on soils’ regulating and provisioning services, and on developing underpinning science that can be incorporated into life-cycle assessed environmental footprinting schemes. In 2012, Karin was appointed as Adjunct Senior Lecturer at Massey University’s Life Cycle Management Centre. She has co-authored about 52 scientific publications in international journals. Karin is Associate Editor of the Wiley journal the ‘European Journal of Soil Science’ and the US Soil and Water Conservation Society’s journal ‘Journal of Soil and Water Conservation’. She is also serving on the editorial committee of the journal ‘Agricultural, Ecosystem and Environment’ (Elsevier).