Villum Young Investigator grant for Yi Jiao from VOLT

Yi Jiao, former Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions postdoc at VOLT was just awarded a prestigious Young Investigator grant from the Villum Foundation. The official award ceremony took place in January at the Queen's Hall, Black Diamond (the Royal Danish Library).

Peatland exchange of atmospheric volatile carbon: Kinetics & mechanisms
Peatlands store more carbon than all global plants combined, but climate change may release a fraction of this carbon as volatile organic compounds, impacting air quality and climate. This project aims to study the processes and mechanisms behind the production and consumption of volatile carbon in peatlands and integrate them into climate models.

With this grant, Yi will establish his own research group and recruit one postdoc and one PhD student.