Postdoc researcher
Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College
Siya Shao is a postdoc researcher working with Dr. Caitlin Hicks Pries and Dr. Benjamin Sulman at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. He completed his PhD at McGill University in Montreal, Canada in 2021. His research centers around using biogeochemical models to better understand ecosystem’s response to future environmental changes. During his PhD project, he worked with Prof. Nigel Roulet on modeling the biogeochemical cycling, particularly plant-microbe interactions in ombrotrophic peatlands, and incorporated microbial metabolism (both saprotrophs and ericoid mycorrhizal fungi), vegetation dynamics, nitrogen and phosphorus cycling into a peatland model (McGill Wetland Model). His current postdoc work focuses on investigating the effect of mycorrhizal associations on forest soil carbon and nitrogen cycling using CORPSE (Carbon, Organisms, Rhizosphere and Protection in the Soil Environment) model.