Sonja Leitner

Career

• 2026 Assistant Professor, Institute of Soil Research (BOKU University)
• 2026 - 2026 Senior Researcher and Lecturer, Institute for Organic Plant Production and Agroecosystems Research in the Tropics and Subtropics (OPATS) (University of Kassel)
• 2024 - 2026 Senior Scientist at the Mazingira Centre for Environmental Research and Education, Nairobi, Kenya (International Livestock Research Institute)
• 2020 - 2024 Scientist at the Mazingira Centre for Environmental Research and Education, Nairobi, Kenya (International Livestock Research Institute)
• 2018 - 2020 Postdoct at the Mazingira Centre for Environmental Research and Education, Nairobi, Kenya (International Livestock Research Institute)
• 2015 - 2016 Austrian Marshallplan Foundation scholarship (University of California, Santa Barbara)
• 2013 - 2017 PhD student at the Institute of Soil Science, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Austria (funded by the AXA research fund) (BOKU University)
• 2011 - 2012 Research assistant at the Institute of Soil Science, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Austria (BOKU University)
• 2003 - 2010 MSc Biology (Ecology), University of Vienna, Austria (University of Vienna)