Dr. Sergiy Medinets

As a biogeochemist and environmental scientist with over two decades of research expertise, Dr. Sergiy Medinets specializes in nutrient biogeochemistry, soil-atmosphere interactions and environmental chemistry. His career has focused on advancing nutrient management, reactive trace and greenhouse gas fluxes and understanding human impacts on ecosystems. He has contributed to over 18 national and international research initiatives, driving environmental solutions.

He has co-led several research projects, including coordinating the East Europe region in the GEF-UNEP Towards INMS project on sustainable nitrogen (N) management. As Co-I, he led the Ukrainian team in the EU-funded PONTOS project, enhancing environmental monitoring through Earth observation. In a national Ukrainian project on nutrient pollution in the Dniester catchment, he provided actionable insights for ecosystem management. Recently, as a Visiting Scientists at UKCEH, he led the RaR Research Support project Assessing the Air Quality Implications of VOC Emissions from Bio-based Fertilisers, funded by the Leverhulme Trust and the British Academy. Currently, he leads the NERC ACCLIMATE project, serves as a project manager and task leader in the DefRAP Ammonia as an Air Pollutant project, and is involved in other projects.

Dr. Medinets has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals (https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=36161375000). He developed novel methodologies for measuring soil NOx, N2O, VOC and other trace gases, improving understanding of nutrient fluxes. He also co-authored international guidelines, including sustainable N management, and contributed to the International N Assessment as a coordinating lead author for Eastern Europe.

His technical expertise includes field and lab measurements of greenhouse gases (N2O, CH4, CO2), reactive N compounds (NOx, NH3) and VOCs using technologies like EC, CRDS, PTR-ToF-MS, dynamic and static chamber systems. He has designed and managed long-term research stations, including the first CO2, Nr and GHG flux measurements in Ukraine under the EU NitroEurope and ECLAIRE projects. He also has experience in atmospheric deposition sampling, nutrient footprint analysis and advanced data processing.

Sergiy earned a PhD (Dr. rer. Nat.) in Natural Sciences from the University of Freiburg (Germany) with research conducted at the IMK-IFU, KIT (Germany) on soil NOx fluxes from forest and agricultural ecosystems as part of the EU FP7 ECLAIRE project. He was awarded the British Academy (BA) RaR Fellowship to conduct research at the UKCEH, advancing VOC and nutrient pollution research. Currently he is a senior biogeochemist in the Atmosphere-Biosphere Interactions group at UKCEH (Edinburgh).

He is skilled in engaging stakeholders, including academic institutions, government bodies and international organizations, to translate research into actionable policy recommendations.