Bahareh Bicharanloo

Bahareh Bicharanloo

School of Agriculture, Food and Wine

Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD (as Co-Supervisor) - email supervisor to discuss availability.


Bahar is interested in employing stable isotopes integrated with microbial techniques to examine the belowground plant carbon allocation with consequences for soil biogeochemistry and nutrient cycling in different plant-soil systems.

Bahar's research interests lie in soil biogeochemistry and plant-soil interactions, with expertise on employing stable isotopes integrated with microbiological techniques. Bahar's research also includes examining the controls on plant carbon allocation belowground, such as rhizodeposition, root respiration, and mycorrhizal association. She further evaluates the consequences of plant carbon input on soil biogeochemistry and nutrient cycling across various plant-soil systems.

She has developed a novel 13CO2 labelling method for field condition enabled her to partition the total respiration into the decomposition of soil organic carbon (SOC) and rhizodeposited C in a grassland soil and to track the incorporation of rhizodeposition into the formation of different organic matter pools.

  • Appointments

    Date Position Institution name
    2024 - ongoing Lecturer University of Adelaide
    2022 - 2024 Postdoctoral Research Associate University of Sydney
    2021 - 2022 Research Assistant University of Sydney
  • Awards and Achievements

    Date Type Title Institution Name Country Amount
    2022 Award Postgraduate Research Prize for Outstanding Academic Achievement School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Sydney, Australia Australia $500
    2020 Award 3rd place Award for “180-second spiel” thesis challenge Sydney Institute of Agriculture, The University of Sydney Australia $100
    2019 Scholarship Postgraduate Research Scholarship in Plant Soil Interactions School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Sydney Australia $27,000 per annum
    2019 Scholarship Thomas Lawrance Pawlett Postgradaute Scholarship Sydney Institute of Agriculture, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Sydney Australia $10,000 per annum
  • Education

    Date Institution name Country Title
    2019 - 2022 University of Sydney Australia PhD
  • Research Interests

[2020-2021] Postgraduate Research Fund, Australian Plant Phenomics Facility, The University of Adelaide, Australia. Title: What are the carbon costs for tomato plants to take up nutrients and water from the soil? $4,486 [Chief Investigator]

[2010 – 2012] Research Fund, Young Researchers and Elite Club, Iran. Title: Allelopathic effect of three weed species aqueous extract on germination and growth indices of two wheat varieties [Chief Investigator]

Cooperates with Prof. Petra Marschner for teaching "Soil Ecology and Nutrients Cycling"


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