Nikou Hamzehpour Senior Fellow 2024–2025
- Discipline
- Soil science and environmental degradation
- Fellowship duration
- September 01, 2024–February 28, 2025
- Academic or artistic job title
- Associate Professor of Soil Science
- Home institution
University of Maragheh, IR
- Contact
- Links
- Institutional website
Nikou's Google Scholar profile - Associated with
Nikou Hamzehpour is an associate professor of soil science at the University of Maragheh (IR), focusing on environmental degradation processes. Her work has primarily examined different aspects of Lake Urmia recession (in the northwest of Iran) as a consequence of both climate change and anthropogenic activities, including soil-landscape evolution, soil salinization in agricultural lands, geomorphology of newly formed lands, and their susceptibility to wind erosion.
In 2020, Nikou visited the Atmospheric Chemistry group at ETH Zurich for one year as a visiting grantee and accomplished a project on the ice nucleation activity of dust particles and their influence on climate change, evaluating the effect of different fractions of saline-lacustrain sediments on cloud formation. She has recently been focusing on dust source stabilization using both locally available and environmentally safe mulches, as well as the role of soil organic matter in combating wind erosion. In 2024, she received an ETH4D grant to research the improvement of soil organic matter as a key indicator of soil quality in semi-arid regions.
