dr. A (Annegret) Larsen

dr. A (Annegret) Larsen

Assistant Professor

Annegret Larsen is assistant professor in the Soil Geography and Landscape Group at Wageningen University (WUR, the Netherlands). She has also been a lecturer at the University of Manchester (Great Britain), research scientist at the Université de Lausanne (Switzerland), the University of Brisbane (Australia), and the University of Kiel (Germany). She holds a PhD in Physical Geography and Geoarchaeology from the University of Kiel, and a degree in education from Germany.  Dr. Larsen’s research focusses on human-landscape interaction, abiotic-biotic environmental feedbacks, rewilding, and ecosystem services. Her research has implications for conservation, land-use planning, and nature-based solutions. She pays particular attention to better understanding the processes within sustainably managed and resilient landscapes, and how to create and manage them. This is where all of her research lines (human-landscape interaction, abiotic-biotic interactions, rewilding) and many spatiotemporal scales (millennial to minute, landscape to plot) come together, as a successful restoration/regeneration of a landscape is only possible when past human modifications, and their effects on the environment can be matched with an understanding of the present environmental processes initiated e.g. by conservation techniques like rewilding. Dr. Larsen's recently awarded NWO-Vidi project focuses on restoring resilient river systems through using old DNA from river sediments to better understand the natural condition of rivers prior to human modification. All her teaching focuses on courses of highly integrative learning, which she greatly enjoys and bases upon her university degree in education.