Dr Leonard Döhl

'Food’ and ‘Health’ are at the core of everything that I do. These cover areas in soil health, plant health, animal health, human health and environmental and ecosystem services.

At the University of Leeds as a Research Fellow, I am currently working in the Regenerative Agriculture team on (1) the ecosystem balance of carbon and nitrogen of regenerative farming systems, (2) its impact on climate change and (3) evaluating regenerative farming economics. In my approach to address these topics, I integrate critical and systems thinking and machine-learning methodologies. In the team, I also participate in field work doing crop and soil sampling as well as relevant analyses.

Previous in my Fellow, I developed a machine-learning R package called Equivalent Soil Mass – Cumulative Regression and Error Propagation Estimator (ESM–CREPE) for accurate and precise quantification of changes in soil organic carbon stocks for the soil carbon research community and practitioners. This work also led me to participate and engage in the consultation of establishing the standard of quantification of soil organic carbon stock developed by Verra and Isometric. This was part of the EU Horizon project – Novasoil.