Markus Puschenreiter

Markus Puschenreiter (AT) works as a soil ecologist at the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences (BOKU) and also collaborates with the Burgenland-based engineering company Natur-Umwelt-Nachhaltigkeit. At BOKU, his research interests include the interaction of plant roots and soil, as well as metal-accumulating plants – an unusual plant group that stores extraordinarily high concentrations of metals in the leaves, making them interesting both for the purification of polluted soils and for metal extraction.