Dr. Beatrice Kulli Honauer

Projects

• Improving Circular Economy Practices and Food Security in the Agriculture Sector by Valorizing Organic Residues Using Thermo-Chemical Processes / Project leader / ongoing
• Development of analytical methods specific to aquaculture / Team member / completed
• Hydrothermal carbonization as a sustainable solution for faecal waste treatment / Deputy project leader / completed
• Soil Garden / Team member / completed
• Office of the Soil Science Society of Switzerland / Project leader / completed
• Effect of ladle slag from steel recycling on soil fertility and plant growth / Project leader / completed
• LCA of peat, alternative substrates and growing media / Team member / completed
• Comparison of the suitability of soil and sand filters for the treatment of run-off water of heavily used roads. / Project leader / completed

Publications

Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed

• Blank-Pachlatko, J., Rhyner, N., Smits, T. H. M., Kulli Honauer, B., & Edelkraut, K. (2025). Beyond plants : how soil alterations shape restoration success in alpine grasslands. Tuexenia, 45, 405–427. https://doi.org/10.14471/2025.45.012
• Mohammadi, P., Dang, C. H., Román, S., Duman, G., Akdeniz, R. C., Kömekçi, F., Nik Ghazali, N. N., De Tender, C., & Kulli, B. (2025). Can biomass-derived chars serve as a viable alternative to commercial inorganic fertilizers? Biofuel Research Journal, 45, 2350–2372. https://doi.org/10.18331/BRJ2025.12.1.5
• Ischia, G., Berge, N. D., Bae, S., Marzban, N., Román, S., Farru, G., Wilk, M., Kulli Honauer, B., & Fiori, L. (2024). Advances in research and technology of hydrothermal carbonization : achievements and future directions. Agronomy, 14(5), 955. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy14050955
• Gerner, G., Chung, J. W., Meyer, L., Wanner, R., Heiniger, S., Seiler, D., Krebs, R., Treichler, A., Kontic, R., & Kulli Honauer, B. (2023). Hydrothermal carbonization of sewage sludge : new improvements in phosphatic fertilizer production and process water treatment using freeze concentration. Energies, 16(20), 7027. https://doi.org/10.3390/en16207027
• Berli, M., Kulli, B., Attinger, W., Keller, M., Leuenberger, J., Flühler, H., Springman, S. M., & Schulin, R. (2004). Compaction of agricultural and forest subsoils by tracked heavy construction machinery. Soil & Tillage Research, 75(1), 37–52. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0167-1987(03)00160-0
• Kulli, B., Stamm, C., Papritz, A., & Flühler, H. (2003). Discrimination of flow regions on the basis of stained infiltration patterns in soil profiles. Vadose Zone Journal, 2(3), 338–348. https://doi.org/10.2136/vzj2003.3380
• Kulli, B., Gysi, M., & Flühler, H. (2003). Visualizing soil compaction based on flow pattern analysis. Soil & Tillage Research, 70(1), 29–40. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0167-1987(02)00121-6
• Kulli Honauer, B., Balmer, M., Krebs, R., Lothenbach, B., Geiger, G., & Schulin, R. (1999). The influence of nitrilotriacetate on heavy metal uptake of lettuce and ryegrass. Journal of Environmental Quality, 28(6), 1699–1705. https://doi.org/10.2134/jeq1999.00472425002800060002x
• Fischer, U., Kulli Honauer, B., & Flühler, H. (1998). Constitutive relationships and pore structure of undisturbed fracture zone samples with cohesionless fault gouge layers. Water Resources Research, 34(7), 1695–1701. https://doi.org/10.1029/98WR00826

Books, peer-reviewed

Kulli, B. (2002). Analysis of flow patterns : the influence of soil compaction and soil structure on the infiltration pathways of dye tracer solutions and the quantitative evaluation of flow patterns [Doctoral dissertation, ETH Zürich]. https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-a-004437447

Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed

• Dang, C. H., Cappai, G., Chung, J.-W., Jeong, C., Kulli Honauer, B., Marchelli, F., Ro, K. S., & Román, S. (2024). Research needs and pathways to advance hydrothermal carbonization technology [Conference paper]. Agronomy, 14(2), 247. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy14020247
• Blank-Pachlatko, J., Edelkraut, K., & Kulli Honauer, B. (2022, August). Differences in vegetation composition, bacterial community and soil properties after restoration of construction sites on alpine grasslands. INTECOL 2022, Geneva, Switzerland, 28 August - 2 September 2022. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-27322
• Baumgartner, J., & Kulli, B. (2015). Bodenverdichtung in Dauergrünland : Unterschied von Zustand und Stabilität der Bodenstruktur im Vergleich zu Ackerstandorten [Conference paper]. BGS Bulletin, 36, 23–28. https://www.soil.ch/de/publikationen

Other publications

• Kulli, B., Heiniger, S., Matile, L., Frey, B., & Berger, R. (2025). Untersuchung der biologischen Eigenschaften von Gewächshausböden. ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.
• Rupf, R., Rohrer, J., Riesen, M., Schlegel, J., Dengler, J., Kulli Honauer, B., Graf, R. F., & Forster, S. (2024). Umweltauswirkungen alpiner Photovoltaikanlagen : eine Praxisgrundlage zur wissenschaftlichen Projektbegleitung. ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-31145
• Blank-Pachlatko, J., Kulli Honauer, B., & Edelkraut, K. (2023). Herausforderung alpiner Renaturierungen : markante Unterschiede in Vegetation, Bakterien und Boden. IUNR Magazin, 2023(1), 16–17. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-27700
• Burkhardt, M., Kulli, B., & Saluz, A. G. (2022). Schwammstadt im Strassenraum : Herausforderungen und Lösungen für blau-grüne Massnahmen. Aqua & Gas, 2022(10), 16–29. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-26997
• Thalmann, B., Hofer, C., Wächter, D., & Kulli, B. (2022). Per- und polyfluorierte Alkylsubstanzen (PFAS) in Schweizer Böden. altlasten spektrum, 31(6), 176–179. https://doi.org/10.37307/j.1864-8371.2022.06.05
• Burkhardt, M., Kulli, B., & Saluz, A. (2022). Neue Herausforderungen bei der Strassenentwässerung : Recherche zum Stand des Wissens. ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-27005
• Keel, S. G., Johannes, A., Boivin, P., Burgos, S., Charles, R., Hagedorn, F., Kulli, B., Leifeld, J., Saluz, A., & Zimmermann, S. (2021). Soil carbon sequestration in Switzerland : analysis of potentials and measures. Agroscope. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-30105
• Mehli, A., Gerner, G., Kulli Honauer, B., Baier, U., Kühni, M., Treichler, A., Winkler, D., Griffin, T., Kaiser, S., & Garcia, A. (2021). HTC Innovationscampus Rheinmühle - Pilotanlage zur hydrothermalen Karbonisierung : Prozessoptimierung & Verfahrenserkenntnisse (Schlussbericht). Bundesamt für Energie BFE. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-21929
• Hafner, S., Jean Petit Matile, L., Frey, B., Berger, R., Hutter, M., & Kulli Honauer, B. (2019). Untersuchung der Eigenschaften und Fruchtbarkeit von Gewächshausböden. WSL Eidgenössische Forschungsanstalt für Wald, Schnee und Landschaft. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-20511
• Amrein, S., Kulli Honauer, B., & Bättig-Frey, P. (2019). Erdreich : der Schatz unter unseren Füssen. IUNR Magazin, 2019(01), 26–27. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-18796
• Pazeller, A., von Känel, C., Steiner, M., Rutz, F., & Kulli Honauer, B. (2017). Vergleich der Eignung von bewachsenen Boden- und Sandfiltern zur Reinigung von Strassenabwasser. Schweizerischer Verband der Strassen- und Verkehrsfachleute.
• Kulli, B., Berli, M., Gysi, M., Schulin, R., & Flühler, H. (2000). Subsoil compaction on agricultural land by heavy construction machinery : soil physical aspects [Conference paper]. In R. Horn (Ed.), Advances in Geoecology (Vol. 32, pp. 278–283). Catena.

Oral conference contributions and abstracts

Blank-Pachlatko, J., Edelkraut, K., & Kulli Honauer, B. (2022, September). Differences in vegetation composition, bacterial community and soil properties after restoration of construction sites on alpine grasslands. Kongress «Graubünden Forscht 2022», Davos, Schweiz, 21.- 22. September 2022.

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