Felix Holtkamp

Since 2019:
PhD Student at University of Bonn – Project ASAP:
https://www.unter-2-grad.de/projekte/asap/

2016 - 2019:
Master of Science, Agricultural Sciences and Resource Management in the Tropics and Subtropics (ARTS), University Bonn, Germany
Awarded for the best graduate of the year

2014 - 2016:
Bachelor of Science, Agricultural Sciences and Teaching/Vocational College, University Bonn, Germany

Since 2020:
Research Assistant at Alzchem Group AG, Trostberg, Germany

2018:
Research Scholarship at the Department of Genetics at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil (3 Month).

2017 - 2018:
Scientific Assistant – University of Bonn, Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation (INRES), Plant Nutrition

Nutrient recycling, Trace gas emissions, Animal waste management, Soil nutrient dynamics, Plant environmental stress physiology

ASAP - The project " Alkalization as Efficient Slurry Treatment reduces Ammonia and Methane Emissions as well as Slurry storage capacities and enables P-Recycling " is a joint project of the University of Bonn, Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences and SF-Soepenberg GmbH funded by the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture. The aim of the project is to alkalize slurry in a controlled process so that plant nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus can be recycled and refined into valuable plant fertilizer. In addition, this process also has the advantage of reducing greenhouse gas emissions released by slurry. We were able to show, that during an eight-week storage period, emissions of methane and carbon dioxide were reduced by 99% and those of nitrous oxide by 60% when the slurry was previously alkalized to a pH of 10.